The Watkins Book of English Folktales

By: Neil Philip

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 400 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781786787255
Related ISBNs:: 9781786787095
Publisher:: Watkins Media
Date of Addition:: 10/26/22
Copyrighted By:: Watkins Media Limited
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.