| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
[The Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library] |
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Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.
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| Note |
British ed. has title: The Virago book of fairy tales. |
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Series statement appears on jacket. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242). |
| Contents |
Brave, bold and wilful: Search for luck -- Mr. Fox -- Kakuarshuk -- Promise -- Kate Crackernuts -- Fisher-girl and the crab -- Clever women, resourceful girls and desperate stratagems: Maol a Chliobain -- Wise little girl -- Blubber boy -- Girl who stayed in the fork of a tree -- Princess in the suit of leather -- Hare -- Mossycoat -- Vasilisa the priest's daughter -- Pupil -- Rich farmer's wife -- Keep your secrets -- Three measures of salt -- Resourceful wife -- Aunt Kate's goomer-dust -- Battle of the birds -- Parsley-girl -- Clever Gretel -- Furburger. |
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Sillies: Pottle a'brains -- Young man in the morning --Now I should laugh, if I were not dead -- Three sillies -- Boy who had never seen women -- Old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle -- Tom tit tot -- Husband who was to mind the house -- Good girls and where it gets them: East o' the sun and west o' the moon -- Good girl and the ornery girl -- Armless maiden -- Witches: Chinese princess -- Cat-witch -- Baba Yaga -- Mrs. Number Three. |
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Unhappy families: Girl who banished seven youths -- Market of the dead -- Woman who married her son's wife -- Little red fish and the clog of gold -- Wicked stepmother -- Tuglik and her granddaughter -- Juniper tree -- Nourie Hadig -- Beauty and pock face -- Old age -- Moral tales: Little Red Riding Hood -- Feet water -- Wives cure boastfulness -- Tongue meat -- Woodcutter's wealthy sister -- Escaping slowly -- Nature's ways -- Two women who found freedom -- How a husband weaned his wife from fairy tales. |
| Subject |
Women -- Folklore.
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Fairy tales.
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| Added Author |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.
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Sargood, Corinna.
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| ISBN |
0394587642: $22.95 |
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