Robber With a Witch's Head : More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach

Gonzenbach, Laura (COM); Zipes, Jack David (TRN); Rock, Joellyn (ILT)

ISBN 10: 1138864528 / ISBN 13: 9781138864528

Edité par Routledge, 2015

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• Titre: Robber With a Witch's Head : More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach
• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1138864528
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781138864528
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: As New

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The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes.

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Laura Gonzenbach was born in Sicily to Swiss-German parents. Her collection of Sicilian fairy and folk tales was first published in 1870 in German. An Italian edition appeared in 2000.

Jack Zipes, one of the world's experts on fairy tales and folklore, is the acclaimed translator of the Complete Fairy Tales of the BrothersGrimm (Bantam), editor of the Oxford Companion to FairyTales, and the author of more than a dozen books on children's literature and culture, including Don't Bet onthe Prince, Sticks and Stones, and Creative Storytelling, all published by Routledge. He is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota.