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Michael Patrick Hearn
The Victorian Fairy Tale Book
A delightful selection of stories and poems from the Golden Age of the English fairy tale--by Charles Dickens, J.M. Barrie, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Ford Maddox Ford, and William Butler Yeats, among others--presented with the illustrations from their origianal editions.
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Royall Tyler
Japanese Tales
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese worldview during a classic period in Japanese civilization. Masterfully edited and translated by the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, these stories ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, offering a window into a long-vanished though perennially fascinating culture.
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John Bierhorst
Latin American Folktales
The wisdom and artistry of Latin America's storytellers preserve one of the world's richest folktale traditions--combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's wife who knew the Devil's secrets, the tree daughters who robbed their father's grave, and the wife in disguise who married her own husband--not to mention the Bear's son, the tricksters Fox and Monkey, the two compadres, and the classic rogue Pedro de Urdemalas.
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