Presented here are the complete texts of "Beautiful Angiola" and "The Robber with the Witches Head", plus two never-before translated stories. In the late nineteenth century, Laura Gonzenbach collected these stories throughout her native Sicily and now Jack Zipes' sparkling translations bring these stories to life for English-speaking readers. Witches and princes, magic and trickery, and a parade of lively characters make "Beautiful Angiola" the perfect book for anyone who loves folk and fairy tales.
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"...a treasure...All the magic elements of the folk and fairy tales are in these stories, but with a delightfully Sicilian angle: stories where a man's word is his life, a woman can leave her home and determine her own fate, and working hard reaps reward. When I finished the last page, I knew this book was a labor of love and deserved my respect." -- Kathryn Thurman, Territorial Tattler
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Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature and culture, his most recent books include Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller and Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children, both published by Routledge.
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Truly an unearthed treasure of Sicilian folk and fairy tales,
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This review is from: Beautiful Angiola: The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach (Paperback)
Beautiful Angiola: The Lost Sicilian Folk And Fairy Tales Of Laura Gonzenbach is truly an unearthed treasure of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Originally compiled by a young Swiss-German woman named Laura Gonzenbach, who spoke with peasant women throughout Sicily, gathered their stories, and published a High German edition in 1870, Beautiful Angiola has since been rediscovered by children's literature expert Jack Zipes, who translated it into English for the first time. Zipes also contributed an introduction to this timeless collection of sometimes tongue-in- cheek, sometimes moralistic, sometimes sad, sometimes uproarious stories and legends. Beautiful Angiola is a "must-have" for personal, academic, and community library folktale and fairy tale collections.
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beautifully covered table, dear little horse, popolari siciliani, dear purse, gold donkey, deceitful slave, clever maiden, third hermit, vanished princess, twelve robbers, popolari siciliane, magic cane, second hermit, youngest princess, splendid wedding, beautiful braids, dialect tales, how many feathers, next morning the queen, older brother lives, beautiful coffin, four princesses, five thalers, bona vista, seven robbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Joseph, Master Giuseppe, Betta Pilusa, Count Piro, Don Giovanni, Saint Francis, Virgin Mary, Fata Morgana, King Cardiddu, Master Pippu, Donna Maria, King Chicchereddu, Prince Scursuni, Saint James of Galicia, Saint John, Peasant Truthful, Cirimimminu Count, Saint Peter, Master Antoni, Master Paul, Mount Calvary, Count of the Underworld, Jordan River, Saint Giovanni New!
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beautifully covered table, dear little horse, popolari siciliani, dear purse, gold donkey, deceitful slave, clever maiden, third hermit, vanished princess, twelve robbers, popolari siciliane, magic cane, second hermit, youngest princess, splendid wedding, beautiful braids, dialect tales, how many feathers, next morning the queen, older brother lives, beautiful coffin, four princesses, five thalers, bona vista, seven robbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Saint Joseph, Master Giuseppe, Betta Pilusa, Count Piro, Don Giovanni, Saint Francis, Virgin Mary, Fata Morgana, King Cardiddu, Master Pippu, Donna Maria, King Chicchereddu, Prince Scursuni, Saint James of Galicia, Saint John, Peasant Truthful, Cirimimminu Count, Saint Peter, Master Antoni, Master Paul, Mount Calvary, Count of the Underworld, Jordan River, Saint Giovanni New!
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- The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) by Apuleius in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Golden Ass (Dodo Press) by Lucius Apuleius in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cupid and Psyche (Penguin Epics) by Apuleius in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Golden Ass (Oxford World's Classics) by Apuleius in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Customs and Habits of the Sicilian Peasants by Salvatore Salomone-Marino in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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