Celtic Fairy Tales - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1907360182 ISBN 13: 9781907360183

Casa editrice: Collectors Library, 2011

Riassunto

These stories are engaging brief episodes of fancy and fantasy from the oral tradition, which were designed to engage and fascinate the young mind, and readers are encouraged to pause awhile to savor such delights from a simpler and less pressured age.

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L'autore:

Joseph Jacobs was a Jewish historian and leading folklorist whose special passion was fairy tales. He was born in Australia and attended the University of Sydney where he won a scholarship for classics, mathematics, and chemistry. He completed his studies at St. John's College, Cambridge. He eventually came to prominence as the writer of a series of articles in The Times on the persecution of Jews in Russia. Between 1882 and 1900 he gave much time to anthropological studies in connection with the Jewish race, and became an authority on the subject. But his interests were varied. From 1899 to 1900 he edited the journal Folklore, and from 1890 to 1912 he edited five collections of fairy tales. In 1906 he moved to New York and became registrar and professor of English at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He died in January 1916.

Product Description:

Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) was a noted literary and folklorist. He edited a number of books of fairy tales, including this work and its sequel, More Celtic Fairy Tales. It includes the famous stories Conal Hammerclaw, The Story of Deirdre, Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, The Wooing of Olwen, Jack and His Comrades, The Sea Maiden, Fairm Brown and Trembling, The Battle of the Birds, Brewery of Eggshells and many others. John D. Batten (1860-1932) was inspired by mythology and his drawings derive partly from German woodcuts and partly from the arts and crafts book decoration of William Morris and his followers.With an Introduction by Marcus Clapham.

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• Editore: Collectors Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907360182
• ISBN 13: 9781907360183
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 245
• Redattore: Jacobs Joseph