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Download or read book Folktales Told Around the World written by Richard M. Dorson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.

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