Pink Fairy Book - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486217922 ISBN 13 : 9780486217925

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 1967

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A jaj people in the world tell nursery tales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts. The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modem Greeks, just as the old Egyptians did, when Moses had not been many years rescued out of the bulrushes. The Germans, French, Spanish, I talians, Danes, Highlanders tell them also, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, if he examines and compares. But the Japanese tales wi Uprobably be new to the young student; the Tanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may not have made before. He may remark that Andersen wants to point a moral, as well as to adorn a tale; that he is trying to make fun of the fo Uies of mankind, as they exist in civilised countries. The Danish story of The Princess in the Chest need not be read to a very nervous child, as it rather borders on a ghost story.
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Biographie de l'auteur :

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. Although he did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally — with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy — made the collections immensely influential. Lang gave many of the tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0486217922
• ISBN 13: 9780486217925
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Illustrateur: Ford H. J.