Bibliograph

The Watkins book of English folktales, [edited by] Neil Philip ; foreword by Neil Gaiman

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The Watkins book of English folktales, [edited by] Neil Philip ; foreword by Neil Gaiman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Watkins book of English folktales

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1346306844

Responsibility statement

[edited by] Neil Philip ; foreword by Neil Gaiman

Summary

"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"--Amazon.com

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Book of English folktalesEnglish folktales

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