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Book Sun Moon and Talia an Introduction

Download or read book Sun Moon and Talia an Introduction written by Giovan Basile and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an introduction to Sleeping Beauty, Giovan Battista Basile's Sun Moon and Talia (1634) is an ideal first step to understanding how the mailability of fairy tales can explain their persistence within Western culture. Indeed, their recent return to popular culture has proven them to be a financially rewarding genera for creative types, that they find them easily adaptable for the easily accessible market. Yet each of these new successful compositions have a unified undercurrent sourced from the original text they were adapted; without which the remoulded transmission and reception of the new story would simply fall on deaf ears. It is then, imperative to retain the original subtext, the residence of a story's meaning: and by doing so the writer is simply mirroring the natural evolution that stories have experienced since they first appeared in human culture. An adaptation that allows a story to be accepted by their new audience.With that in mind, this Introduction to Sleeping Beauty has been published for writers and people with a general interest in fairy-tales. A short and easy-going book containing an analytical introduction to Giovan Battista Basile's Sleeping Beauty, with copies of Benedetto Croce's modern Italian, and, Basile's original text: accompanied by a unique English translation. Unique by having had much of its fluffy render stripped away. Maintaining only enough core narrative to retain the essence of a consistent, yet concise story. Lending plenty of space for writers to innovate their own Sleeping Beauty edition and add, to what has proven to be, a boon for Sleeping Beauty lovers and publishers alike.

Book Talia  The Sleeping Beauty

Download or read book Talia The Sleeping Beauty written by Charles Perrault and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Princess Talia shall pierce her hand with a spindle and die of the wound.” Drawing on the versions by Perrault and Basile, this new retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairytale tells the story of Talia, a Princess, who is cursed by a slighted Fairy to die of a wound from a spindle. However, her destiny is re-imagined by another Fairy to sleep until awoken by the son of a King, who will have to deal with an enchanted wood and an ogre before he can live in peace with Talia, and their two children, Sun and Moon... In addition, this book contains English translations of the original tales by Perrault and Basile, ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’ and ‘Sun, Moon and Talia.’ [Folklore Type: ATU-410 (The Sleeping Beauty)]

Book The Pentamerone  Or  the Story of Stories

Download or read book The Pentamerone Or the Story of Stories written by Giambattista Basile and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book A Million Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Spurr
  • Publisher : Text Publishing
  • Release : 2021-03-30
  • ISBN : 1925923908
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book A Million Things written by Emily Spurr and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with this heart-wrenching underdog story about grief, friendship and sticking up for yourself

Book Italian Renaissance Tales

Download or read book Italian Renaissance Tales written by Anthony Mortimer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen, frustrated wives, libidinous friars, ill-fated lovers, and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English, and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats. The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject-matter, whether ribald or sentimental, comic or tragic, often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel

Book Contemporary Fairy Tale Magic

Download or read book Contemporary Fairy Tale Magic written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic studies the impact of fairy tales on contemporary cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on how literature and film are retelling classic fairy tales for modern audiences.

Book Giambattista Basile s The Tale of Tales  Or  Entertainment for Little Ones

Download or read book Giambattista Basile s The Tale of Tales Or Entertainment for Little Ones written by Giambattista Basile and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile's monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634-1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.

Book The Stepsister Scheme

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim C. Hines
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009-01-06
  • ISBN : 9780756405328
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Stepsister Scheme written by Jim C. Hines and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danielle Whiteshore, aka Cinderella, reveals what really happens after the "happily ever after" as she, along with Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, race against time to rescue her husband, Prince Armand, from the clutches of some of fantasyland's most nefarious villains. Original.

Book A Kiss in Time

Download or read book A Kiss in Time written by Alex Flinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talia fell under a spell . . . . Jack broke the curse. I was told to beware the accursed spindle, but it was so enchanting, so hypnotic. . . . I was looking for a little adventure the day I ditched my tour group. But finding a comatose town, with a hot-looking chick asleep in it, was so not what I had in mind. I awakened in the same place but in another time—to a stranger's soft kiss. I couldn't help kissing her. Sometimes you just have to kiss someone. I didn't know this would happen. Now I am in dire trouble because my father, the king, says I have brought ruin upon our country. I have no choice but to run away with this commoner! Now I'm stuck with a bratty princess and a trunk full of her jewels. . . . The good news: My parents will freak! Think you have dating issues? Try locking lips with a snoozing stunner who turns out to be 316 years old. Can a kiss transcend all—even time?

Book Old  Old Fairy Tales   Illustrated by Anne Anderson

Download or read book Old Old Fairy Tales Illustrated by Anne Anderson written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old, Old Fairy Tales contains several of the best loved fairy-tales by true masters of the genre, including the Brother's Grimm's 'Briar Rose', 'The Frog Prince' and 'Rumplestiltskin', Charles Perrault's 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Blue Beard' and 'Puss in Boots' as well as Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid.' Old English tales such as 'Jack, the Giant Killer' are also encompassed. All of these wonderful tales are accompanied by colour, and black-and-white illustrations by Anne Anderson (1874-1930). She was a much celebrated Scottish illustrator, primarily known for her art nouveau children's book illustrations, although she also painted etched and designed greeting cards. These truly delicate and elegant works signalled the apogee of the Edwardian Era and the so-called 'golden age' of British illustration; as much appreciated today as they were then. The fairy-tales are presented here in their original translations, alongside Anderson's beautiful images. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s classics and fairy tales – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Book Fairy Tale as Myth Myth as Fairy Tale

Download or read book Fairy Tale as Myth Myth as Fairy Tale written by Jack Zipes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our everyday culture and shapers of our identities. In this lively work, Jack Zipes explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century and examines the ideological relationship of classic fairy tales to domination and oppression in Western society. The fairy tale received its most "mythic" articulation in America. Consequently, Zipes sees Walt Disney's Snow White as an expression of American male individualism, film and literary interpretations of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz as critiques of American myths, and Robert Bly's Iron John as a misunderstanding of folklore and traditional fairy tales. This book will change forever the way we look at the fairy tales of our youth.

Book Madame de Villeneuve s Original Beauty and the Beast   Illustrated by Edward Corbould and Brothers Dalziel

Download or read book Madame de Villeneuve s Original Beauty and the Beast Illustrated by Edward Corbould and Brothers Dalziel written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanting French fairy tale is a timeless story of true love in the face of adversity and reveals the origin tale of the treasured Beauty and the Beast. The story begins with a poor merchant and his daughters on the cusp of poverty. When there is a chance that their capital could be restored, the merchant leaves his family and embarks on a long journey. His children ask their father to return with luxurious gifts. All except his youngest daughter, Beauty, who requests nothing more than a single rose. In the merchant’s attempts to obtain this flower, he encounters a monstrous beast, and changes the course of Beauty’s future forever. First published in 1740, ‘La Belle et La Bête’ is one of the world’s most beloved fairy tales. Written by Madame de Villeneuve, the story was translated into English in 1858 by J. R Planché. This edition features two gorgeous engravings by Edward Corbould and the Brothers Dalziel.

Book Folk and Fairy Tales   Fifth Edition

Download or read book Folk and Fairy Tales Fifth Edition written by Martin Hallett and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 54 stories, 9 critical articles, and 24 color illustrations from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. Accessible critical selections provide a foundation for readers to analyze, debate, and interpret the tales for themselves. An expanded introduction by the editors looks at the history of folk and fairy tales and distinguishes between the genres, while revised introductions to individual sections provide more detailed history of particular tellers and tales, paying increased attention to the background and cultural origin of each tale. This new edition includes a larger selection of critical articles (including pieces by J.R.R. Tolkien and Marina Warner), more modern and cross-cultural variations on classic tales (including stories by Neil Gaiman and Emma Donoghue), and an expanded selection of color illustrations.

Book The Cost of Knowing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brittney Morris
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 1534445455
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Cost of Knowing written by Brittney Morris and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he foresees his younger brother’s imminent death, from the acclaimed author of SLAY. Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia; the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes up short. It’s hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. When he touches a scoop, he has a vision of him using it to scoop ice cream. When he touches his car, he sees it years from now, totaled and underwater. When he touches Talia, he sees them at the precipice of breaking up, and that terrifies him. Alex feels these visions are a curse, distracting him, making him anxious and unable to live an ordinary life. And when Alex touches a photo that gives him a vision of his brother’s imminent death, everything changes. With Alex now in a race against time, death, and circumstances, he and Isaiah must grapple with their past, their future, and what it means to be a young Black man in America in the present.

Book Forgive the Moon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maryanne Stahl
  • Publisher : Signet Book
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780451212184
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Forgive the Moon written by Maryanne Stahl and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Kincaid spends her family's annual summer vacation on Long Island thinking about the changes in her life and what she wants for the future.

Book Hans Christian Andersen s the Little Mermaid

Download or read book Hans Christian Andersen s the Little Mermaid written by Hans Andersen and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After saving a prince from drowning, a mermaid princess embraces a life of extreme self-sacrifice to win his love and gain an immortal soul. Over a century after its first publication, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid persists as one of the world's most enduring works of fantasy for children. Matte Cover 8.5x11'' Can be used as a coloring book

Book Rapunzel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grimm Brothers
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-06
  • ISBN : 9781071011706
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Rapunzel written by Grimm Brothers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapunzel: fairytales of grimm brothers includes story of rapunzel, pinnocchio, jack and the beanstalk, golden gooseA delightful book for adolescent from grimm brothers fairytales .Baby princess of a kingdom gets stolen by a witch and she hides the princess in a tower with no doors or passage.King offers a reward of10000 gold coins to one who findsout his lost daughter.Fate favours an ordinary farmer and he accidentally sees the princess rapunzel in the tower while wandering in the forest...