Collected Folk Tales

Reducere. In the early 20th century Elphinstone Dayrell, a district commissioner located in Ikom, Eastern Province, Nigeria, collected many folk tales from t...

Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in a complete classic collection. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house mad...

Reducere. Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brothe...

Reducere. This is the complete and authoritative edition of the folk and fairy tales of the brothers Grimm, with 212 tales, and including the tale of The Sta...

Reducere. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories ful...

Reducere. THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND'S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES ...

Reducere. First published in 1934, this collection of tales was recorded and edited by Thelma Adamson (1901-83), a student of Franz Boas and one of the first...

From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories ful...

Reducere. Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf S...

DescriptionEvery night before bedtime Dad read tales to his daughter. Sometimes he had to leave for business to the other cities, and the girl coul...

Selected Tales contains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated with an introduct...

The forty-nine traditional Osage narratives presented here, collected in Oklahoma between 1910 and 1923 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, have ...

Reducere. Filled with serpent kings, long lost lovers, magical birds and seductive witches, The Legend of Himal and Nagrai is an enchanting collection of fol...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Washington IrvingIslamic rule, though fragmented, extended over the bulk of Iberia for centuries, even as Christian warlord...

Reducere. Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montel...

DescriptionThis multicultural children's book presents classic Korean fairy tales and other folk stories--providing a delightful look into a rich l...

Reducere. Evenings with Idries Shah collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hafiz. The Sufis have been using carefully constructed stories for teaching purposes...

Rossica Translation PrizeFor fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 year...

Reducere. A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales--most in English for the first time The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales pres...

Reducere. What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are...

Reducere. Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin: Naughty, unexpurgated tales of the beloved wise fool from the Middle & Far East Revised Edition colle...

DescriptionAfrica south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early writte...

Enjoy a collection of classical stories, culled from the greatest storytellers of all time, offering up tales of animals and other enchanted creatu...

Reducere. Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning ...

Reducere. When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived vis...

There was once a young girl whose only possessions were the clothes on her back and a piece of bread some kind soul had given to her. But even thes...

Reducere. Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels wit...

DescriptionKalevala is the poetic name for Finland: 'the land of heroes'. Here you'll find the cultural essence of a young country but an old land,...

Reducere. The blue-skinned old woman who made the mountains. Finfolk, selkies and the Makers of Dreams. Within these pages are the little-known stories of Sc...