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eBooks di Titolo C editi da Abela Publishing di Formato Mobipocket
CZECHOSLOVAK FAIRY TALES - 15 Czech, Slovak and Moravian folk and fairy tales for children. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Anon E. Mouse - Abela Publishing, 2017 -
THIS is a second volume of 15 Czech, Slovak and Moravian folk tales, fairy tales and children’s stories retold in English by Parker Fillmore, with excellent illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. Herein you will find stories like “LONGSHANKS, GIRTH, AND KEEN”, “THE THREE GOLDEN HAIRS“, “THE FLAMING HORSE”, “THE THREE CITRONS” and many others. These tales have been drawn from original Slavic sources, and were chosen for their variety of subject and range of interest. These are tales conceived with all the gorgeousness of the Slavic imagination; charming little nursery tales that might be told in nurseries the world over; folk tales illustrative of the wit of a canny people as surprising to the Anglo-Saxon imagination as they are entertaining. This rendering of some of the old Czechoslovak tales is not offered as a literal translation or a scholarly translation but have been retold in a way that the translator hoped would please children in the West. He has endeavoured to retain the flavor of the originals but has taken the liberty of a short cut here and an elaboration there wherever these have seemed to me to make the English version clearer and more interesting. 10% of the publisher’s net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
CUNNIE RABBIT, Mr. SPIDER and the OTHER BEEF - 51 African Tales and Stories51 West African Stories about Cunning Rabbit & Anansi Spider. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Anon E. Mouse - Abela Publishing, 2019 -
Herein are 51 illustrated African tales of Cunnie Rabbit, or Cunning Rabbit, Anansi the “Trickster” Spider and their mischievous antics they get up to with other animals in the West African Jungle. The 51 stories are divided into 13 sections. These sections are not the usual well-ordered and self explanatory sections you would expect. Instead, they are arranged with typically African fashion and meaning. They are: When The Night Has Come With The Spirits Of The Wood A Back-Yard Kitchen Evening On The Water A Purro Initiation The Burning Of The Farm Mammy Mamenah And Her Friends Children Of Nature An Afternoon In The Barreh Konah Turns Story-Teller While The Birds Did Not Come A Harvest Home In Temne-Land (Northen Sierra Leone) Konah Has A Wonderful Day Some of the stories interwoven into these sections are: Mr. Spider Wins A Wife, Goro, The Wonderful Wrestler, Mr. Turtle Makes A Riding-Horse Of Mr. Leopard, Cunning Rabbit And His Well, Mr. Chameleon Is Transformed Into A Boat, as well as many others which include your typical array of African forest animals like Mr. Crocodile, Mr ‘Elephan, Mr. Pawpawtámus (hippopotamus) and many more. But, Cunnie Rabbit is not in fact a rabbit in the true sense. Cunnie Rabbit is a small deer also know an a Duiker (Day-kah), or Dik Dik, variety of the family Cephalophinae, of which there are 22 extant species. So, no matter what time of year it is, pour yourself a hot toddy, pull up a comfortable chair, and sit back and be prepared to be entertained with this old-fashioned book of African folklore gathered by Florence M. Cronise and Henry W. Ward from Sierra Leone over a hundred years ago. 10% of the publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to Charities. ======= KEYWORDS/TAGS: Cunnie Rabbit, Mr Spider, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Temne People, Night Stories, Anansi the Spider, Folklore, fairy tales, myths, Legends, Wife, Spirits Of The Wood, Goro, Wonderful Wrestler, deer, duiker, dik dik, Clever Trader, Mr. Turtle, Riding-Horse, Mr. Leopard, Back-Yard, Kitchen, Well, Goats, Town, Evening, On The Water, Discover, Wax Girl, Mr. Chameleon, Transform, Boat, Elephant, Pawpawtámus, hippopotamus, Purro Initiation, King, Fowls, Burning, Farm, Brush, Devil's Farm, Pigeon, Mammy Mamenah, Friends, Stone with A Beard, Girl, Plaited, Devil's Beard, Marry, Children Of Nature, Three Twins, Restored, Father To Life, Most Greedy, Create, Frightful Tornado, Fools, African Animals, Tit For Tat, Fatal, Prescriptions, Supply Of Meat, Afternoon, Barreh, Dancing Bird, Wicked, Old Man, Secrets, Konah, Story-Teller, Magic Eggs, Toothache, small Waist, Powerful Witch Medicine, Trouble, Ghost Story, Harvest, Temne-Land, Watch-Pot, Origin, Axe, Wonderful Day, New Version, Eve And The Apple