Item
Greek Fairy Tales
- Title
- en_US Greek Fairy Tales
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US First printing
- en_US Barbara Ker Wilson
- Creator
- en_US Wilson, Barbara Ker See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Toothill, Harry
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:53:21Z
- en_US 1993-03
- en_US 1968
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:53:21Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1968
- Abstract
- en_US Fourteen of the thirty-seven stories told here are fables. They are well told, with a certain fullness. All fourteen match closely versions that Wilson uses in her Animal Folk Tales (1968/71). The foreword has two good comments. Fairy tales like these have no fairies in them; the mark of fairy stories is that they have some quality of magic. And though most stories here come from the oral tradition of modern Greece, Wilson wants to include animal stories for children, and so she turns to Aesopic fables. The fables are now accepted as well-loved first cousins to the `fairy tale'. Well told: The Ass and the Wolf (#8). Differently told: The Ant and the Beetle (#2). Both this beetle and the ass laden with sponges (#15) die. In #18 the fox eats the dead deer's brains. In #30 the lamb grabbed by the hungry shepherd happens to be the wolf.
- Identifier
- en_US 1419 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Follett
- en_US Chicago, IL
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.W682 Gr 1968 See all items with this value
- en_US Collection See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books