The Book of Legends - Couverture souple

Scudder, Horace E

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1599150301 ISBN 13 : 9781599150307

Editeur : Yesterday's Classics, 2006

Synopsis

Legends to supplement Fifty Famous Stories Retold. Includes the stories of St. George and the Dragon, William Tell, King Cophetua, St. Christopher, The Wandering Jew, and the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, retold in fine English prose. Suitable for ages 7 and up.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Book of Fables and The Book of Folk Stories. Literature, in one form or another, recognizes a number of stories which are current in many tongues, and may or may not have had a single origin. Such is the tale of William Tell. There are legends also which sprang up in the popular mind about some hero of real life, and, in ages which knew a marked separation between literate and illiterate, these stories, treasured by uncritical minds, came to express in supernatural terms facts and incidents which at other times would have been held fast in more exactJ.v-ogj pphy- Sue Lare the legends of Saint Christopher and Saint George and the Dragon. A gain, theje are stories like The Bell of Justice and The I mage and the Treasure 3which were the inversion of mediaeval preachers of a lively turn of imagination, and have found a place in such collections as Gesta Romanorum.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yesterday's Classics
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1599150301
• ISBN 13: 9781599150307
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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