The Wily Witch and All the Other Fairy Tales and Fables

Title

en_US The Wily Witch and All the Other Fairy Tales and Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: dut

en_US Second printing

en_US Godfried Bomans; Translation by Patricia Crampton

Creator

en_US Bomans, Godfried

Contributor

en_US Hoogendijk, Wouter

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:03Z

en_US 2003-05

en_US 1978

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1977

Abstract

en_US This is a book of forty-five tales. I find the tales engaging. I have read five. They seem to me to be parables, engaging the values of those who read them seriously. The first story, The Wily Witch (3-8), describes a delightful competition between witch and wizard, who eventually marry each other. The Death of the Storyteller (141-21) is perhaps the shortest of these tales. The storyteller wants to see a gnome, dies, and faces judgment. When God asks what his last thought was and hears that it was to see a gnome, God smiles and lets him in. Yes! A White Christmas (174-75) is a challenging story about letting the Christmas story be now. Similarly, The Chest and the Student (193-96) depicts a situation in which a student makes a lifelong decision, and will learn to regret it. A final story that I read seems to me to be perhaps forced a bit: The Twelfth King (185-92) is true enough, but it may impose a religious solution on a reader. This story involves perhaps the most impressive of the illustrations (187-88): here are the books people produce in dealing with the crisis.

Identifier

en_US 9780916144098

en_US 7358 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82628

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Stemmer House Publishers

en_US Owings Mills, MD

Subject

en_US PZ8.B642 Wil 1977

en_US Godfried Bomans

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole