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Title: Folktales of England
Author: Ruth L. Briggs, Katharine M.; Tongue
ISBN: 9780226074948
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1968
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition--stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. "This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . ."--Times Educational Supplement ". . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories."--Choice "This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man's attempts to comprehend his world."--Quartet "Folktales of England is by all odds the most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques."--Ernest W. Baughman, Journal of American Folklore
Author: Ruth L. Briggs, Katharine M.; Tongue
ISBN: 9780226074948
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1968
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition--stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. "This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . ."--Times Educational Supplement ". . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories."--Choice "This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man's attempts to comprehend his world."--Quartet "Folktales of England is by all odds the most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques."--Ernest W. Baughman, Journal of American Folklore
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