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A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale", "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor", and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows".
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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!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
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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