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The Watkins Book of English Folktales (Hardcover, 0th New edition)
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The Watkins Book of English Folktales (Hardcover, 0th New edition)
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List price R360
Loot Price R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
You Save R72 (20%)
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This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales
captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries.
Read these classic tales as they would have been told when
storytelling was a living art - when the audience believed in
boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o'-the-wisps,
ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find "Jack the
Giantkiller", "Tom Tit Tot" and other quintessentially English
favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English
version of the Grimms' "Little Snow White" - as well as bedtime
frighteners, including "Captain Murderer", as told to Charles
Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full
introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each
tale's journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on
the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of
all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great
verbal dash and daring.
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