Italian Folktales
Chosen as one of the New York Times’s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George...
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Chosen as one of the New York Times’s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156454896 (0156454890)
ASIN: 156454890
Publish date: November 15th 1992
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 800
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Fairy Tales,
Short Stories,
Italian Literature,
Mythology,
Folklore,
Folk Tales
This is a masterful collection of Italian Folktales, where the reader is lured into a world of flux, of metamorphoses, where kings and peasants, tricksters and saints, and a whole zoology* of extraordinary animals, plants and fish wend their way through the landscape and history of the Italian natio...
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