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Contes Bleus
Edouard Laboulaye
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R808
Discovery Miles 8 080
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Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that
speak to our current times Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), one of
nineteenth-century France's most prominent politicians and an
instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also
a prolific writer of fairy tales. Smack-Bam, or The Art of
Governing Men brings together sixteen of Laboulaye's most artful
stories in new translations. Filled with biting social commentary
and strong notions of social justice, these rediscovered tales
continue to impart lessons today. Inspired by folktales from such
places as Estonia, Germany, Iceland, and Italy, Laboulaye's
deceptively entertaining stories explore the relationships between
society and the ruling class. In "Briam the Fool," the hero refuses
the queen's hand after he kills the king. In "Zerbino the Bumpkin,"
the king and prime minister are idiots, while the king's daughter
runs away with a woodcutter to an enchanted island. And in the
title story, "Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men," a
superficial prince is schooled by a middle-class woman who smacks
him when he won't engage in his lessons and follows him across
Europe until he falls in love with her. In these worlds, shallow
aristocrats come to value liberty, women are as assertive and
intelligent as men, and protagonists experience compassion as they
learn of human suffering. With an introduction by leading
fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes that places Laboulaye's writing in
historical context, Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men presents
spirited tales from the past that speak to contemporary life.
Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
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Contes Bleus
Edouard Laboulaye
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R494
Discovery Miles 4 940
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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