| Description |
1 online resource (lxvi, 475 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file rda |
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Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics.
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| Summary |
-- The Tale of Tales Funny and scary, romantic and gruesome--and featuring a childless queen who devours the heart of a sea monster cooked by a virgin, and who then gives birth the very next day; a lecherous king aroused by the voice of a woman, whom he courts unaware of her physical grotesqueness; and a king who raises a flea to monstrous size on his own blood, sparking a contest in which an ogre vies with men for the hand of the king's daughter--The Tale of Tales From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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A collection of fifty fairy tales told by ten storytellers over five days follows the compilation efforts of seventeenth-century Italian poet Giambattista Basile and traces the experiences of a cursed princess who would win back her betrothed. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-466) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- Italy.
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Fairy tales. |
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Italy. |
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Electronic books. |
| Added Author |
Canepa, Nancy L., 1957- translator.
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| Added Title |
Tale of tales |
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Entertainment for little ones |
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Tale of the orge.
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Myrtle.
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Peruonto.
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Vardiello.
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Flea.
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Cinderella cat.
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Merchant.
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Goat-face.
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Enchanted doe.
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Old woman who was skinned.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Basile, Giambattista, approximately 1575-1632. Giambattista Basile's The tale of tales, or, Entertainment for little ones Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2007 (DLC) 2006032926 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Basile, Giambattista, approximately 1575-1632. Tale of tales, or, Entertainment for little ones New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016 9780143129141 (DLC) 2016299007 (OCoLC)909925533 |
| ISBN |
9781101991787 : $60.00 |
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110199178X : $60.00 |
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