The Pink Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0486217922 / ISBN 13: 9780486217925

Edité par Dover Publications, 1967

N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000630505

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.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Pink Fairy Book
Éditeur : Dover Publications
Date d'édition : 1967
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good