| Description |
xliii, 388 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"First published in 1992 as The Penguin Book of English Folktales"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index. |
| Contents |
Jack and the beanstalk. Jack the giant killer -- Clever Jack -- The little red hairy man -- Jack the butter milk -- Lazy Jack -- The grey castle -- Lousy Jack and his eleven brothers -- The magic knapsack -- The history of the four kings -- The green lady -- The old witch -- The small tooth dog -- The glass mountain -- Three feathers -- Sorrow and love -- De little fox -- De little bull calf -- The frog lover -- The frog sweetheart -- Snow White -- Tom tit tot -- The gypsy woman -- Cap O' Rushes -- The ass, the table and the stick -- The story of Mr. Vinegar -- The golden ball -- Mr.Miacca -- The rose tree -- The pear drum -- The flyin' Childer -- The story of Mr. Fox -- Bobby Rag -- Doctor Forster -- Captain Murderer -- The wooden leg -- Wanted a husband -- The hand of glory -- The old man at the White House -- The golden arm -- The story of the three little pigs -- The old woman and her pig -- Titty mouse and Tatty mouse -- The story of chicken licken -- Nursery tale -- The tin can at the cow's tail -- Happy Boz'll -- Appy and the conger eel -- Hawks's men at the Battle of Waterloo -- The Austwick Carles -- The three big sillies -- The miser and his wife -- Stupid's mistaken cries -- The doctors's pestle -- The landlord and the farmer boy -- The lad who was never hungry -- Bad meat -- The doctor and the trapper -- Not so bad after all -- The wrong train -- The new church organ -- Moved by the spirit -- Abraham's bosom -- The maid who wanted to marry -- The wife's request -- The Parsons' meeting -- The Penzance solicitor -- By line and rule -- The hedge priest -- The socialist convert -- The railway ticket -- Box about -- His highness's joke -- The turnip and the horse -- The Miller with the golden thumb -- Four jest of Sir Nicholas le Strange -- The bishop and the doorbell -- The independent bishop -- The miller at the professor's examination -- The building of the Wrekin -- How far is it to Shrewbury -- Carn Galva, and the giant of the Carn -- The giant of Dalton Mill -- Tommy Lindrum -- Jack O' kent -- Legends of Sir Francis Drake -- Biard's leap -- The prophecy -- The spotted dog -- The witch wife -- The witch hare -- Watching for the milk stealer -- The Hart hall hob -- My Ainsell -- The fairy Bairn -- The fairy changeling -- Skillywidden -- Nursing a fairy -- The adventure of Cherry of Zennor -- Fairies down the lane -- The pisky ring -- The merry maid -- Droll of the mermaid -- Johnny Reed! Johnny Reed! -- Jahn Tergagle the Steward -- The roaring bull of Bagbury -- The owl was a baker's daughter -- The curse of the shoemaker -- The first Smith -- The hanted widower -- The Waff -- The pilot's ghost story -- The man monkey -- Billy B--'s adventure -- The ghostly woolpack -- The haunted barn -- The shepherd and the crows -- Bodmin assizes -- The girl in the train -- The ghost at the dance -- The tell tale sword -- Mr. Akroyd's adventure -- In a haunted house -- The dauntless girl -- Dowser and Sam -- The devil and the farmer -- The naturalist and the devil -- Ho the hedgehog ran the devel to death -- Kentsham Bell -- The Master and his pupil -- Chips -- The candle -- The green mist -- The pale rider -- The wizard of Alderley Edge -- The dead moon. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Folklore -- England.
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Tales -- England.
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| Genre |
Folk tales.
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Short stories
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| Added Author |
Gaiman, Neil.
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| Added Title |
Book of English folktales |
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English folktales |
| ISBN |
9781786787095 |
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1786787091 |
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