Donald Davis grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina hearing stories that most American children have never heard. He did not know he was hearing anything special, but he was, in fact, learning a number of stories that came to America through Scots-Irish immigrants and were still common family stories even in the early 1950s.
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At some point in their reading, most educated folks will run across the name of Jack, and of "the Jack tales"-an intriguingly complex phrase, evoking in one breath the humility of the commonplace and the grandeur of art. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
robber test, big tale, wishing ring, wolf hairs, invisible cloak, bent woman, big supper New!
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At some point in their reading, most educated folks will run across the name of Jack, and of "the Jack tales"-an intriguingly complex phrase, evoking in one breath the humility of the commonplace and the grandeur of art. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
robber test, big tale, wishing ring, wolf hairs, invisible cloak, bent woman, big supper New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Invention of Tradition (Canto) by Eric Hobsbawm in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Geoffrey Chaucer in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Studies in East European Folk Narrative (American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series : No 30) by Linda Degh in Front Matter
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17) by Joseph Campbell in Front Matter
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- Ride the Butterflies by Donald Davis in Back Matter
- Writing as a Second Language by Donald Davis in Back Matter
- Listening for the Crack of Dawn (American Storytelling) by Donald Davis in Back Matter
- The House Between Earth and Sky: Harvesting New American Folktales by Joseph Daniel Sobol on page 12
- Myth and Knowing: An Introduction to World Mythology by Scott A. Leonard on page 318
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