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Availability:In StockContributor:Katharine M. Briggs (Editor)Series:Folktales of the WorldPublish date:1968-09-15Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226074948ISBN-10:226074943UPC:9780226074948Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.00 x 5.19 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC8JQSM3WC
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

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226074948ISBN-10:226074943UPC:9780226074948Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.00 x 5.19 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC8JQSM3WC
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Katharine M. Briggs (Editor)

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