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Publisher
Greenwich Workshop Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of ten traditional fairy tales, including "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Puss in Boots," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Snow White," "Tom Thumb," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Frog Prince," "Rumpelstilkins," "Cinderella," and "Three Pigs."
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
As an exploration of the longstanding connection between the people of Ireland and the inhabitants of the land of Fairy, this volume remains one of the best-known collections of Yeats's prose. Yeats, who had a profound belief in mysticism and theosophy, wrote with conviction of the realities and existence of the Fairies, both in his own life, and the daily lives of the Irish people. (from Google Books)
Author
Publisher
D.C. Heath & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
Description
Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise of Wied (1843–1916) was the German-born first queen of Romania, having married Prince Carol (Karl) of Romania in 1869. Known as Queen Elisabeth, she was a prolific writer under the name Carmen Sylva. This, her best-known book (the English title is "From My Kingdom") is the result of a request from the Romanian Minister of Public Instruction for her to write a book that could be used in the public schools of the kingdom...
Author
Publisher
Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It is said, though we cannot vouch for the accuracy of the statement, that in a certain book on the natural history of Ireland there occurs a remarkable and oft-quoted chapter on Snakes—the said chapter consisting of the words, “There are no snakes in Ireland.” In the opinion of most people at the present day a book on Witchcraft in Ireland would be of equal length and similarly worded, except for the inclusion of the Kyteler case in the town...
Author
Publisher
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this translation of a work rich in the raciest beauties and defects of an author long since made known to the British public, the present writer has striven to recast the trenchant humour, the scornful eloquence, the epigrammatic dash of Mr. Michelet, in language not all unworthy of such a word-master. How far he has succeeded others may be left to judge. In one point only is he aware of having been less true to his original than in theory he was...
Author
Publisher
George H. Doran Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents.- Samoa: first impressions -- Troubadouring in Tahiti -- Pokara's story -- I meet Aloa -- Fae Fae -- Abduction of a princess -- The heathen's garden of Eden -- In old Fiji -- Kasawayo and the serpent -- O Le Langi the pagan poet -- R.L.S. in Samoa -- A Mohammedan banquet -- An old Marquesan Queen -- Tissemoa and the cuttle-fish -- Charity organization of the South Seas -- Yoraka's daughter -- Soogy, child of poetry -- Retrospect.
Author
Publisher
Maxwell and Son
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Throughout Dumfriesshire and Galloway remnants of old-world customs still linger, suggesting a remoter time, when superstitious practice and belief held all-important sway in the daily round and task of the people.
In gathering together the available material bearing upon such matters, more particularly in the direction of witchcraft, fairy-lore, death warnings, funeral ceremony and ghost story, the author trusts that by recording the results of...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Hélène Adeline Guerber (1859–1929), also known as H.A. Guerber, was an American writer of books, most of which were lively retellings of myths, legends, folklore, plays, epic poetry, operas and history. She was also a teacher.
Although several books by Guerber are still in print, details about her life are scant. There are entries for her in three or four biographical sources from the early 1900s, but apart from listing the books she wrote, these...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
WHAT are the best fairy stories? Are they not those which have lived most vividly in active minds? The ripeness of after life works its changes; but we are not dealing with literary judgments—rather with the choice of childhood which fortunately lingers in memory, whatever store of wisdom may come in later years. There is here no question of the new or unusual. On the contrary, it is the ideas or visions handed down for generations or centuries...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Though the poems of Homer are replete, perhaps beyond any others, with refined and often latent adaptations, yet it may be observed in general of the modes of representation used by him, that they are preeminently the reverse of systematic. Institutions or characters, which are in themselves consistent, probably gain by this method of proceeding, provided the execution be not unworthy of the design. For it secures their exhibition in more, and more...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Miss Mehitable Upton had come to the city to buy a stock of goods for the summer trade. She had a little shop at the fashionable resort of Keefeport as well as one in the village of Keefe, and June was approaching. It would soon be time to move.
Publisher
David Nutt
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination.
The 26 stories of "Guleesh," "The Horned Women," "King O'Toole and His Goose," "The Sea-Maiden," "The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire," "The Lad with the Goat-Skin," the legendary "Dierdre," "Beth Gellert," and the other...
Author
Publisher
U. S. A. Press of George H. Ellis, Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The legends of the Hawaiian Islands are valuable in themselves, in that they reveal an understanding of the phenomena of nature and unveil their early history with its mythological setting. They are also valuable for comparison with the legends of the other Pacific islands, and they are exceedingly interesting when contrasted with the folk-lore of other nations.
(Excerpt from the Introduction)
Author
Publisher
Meutheun & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It is hoped that this little work may assist in the search along the dark path upon which many a poet and—in later times—many an investigator has set his feet. It would not be worthy of us, whom science and technical ability has raised to so high an intellectual position as explorers of Nature in every field—should we neglect anything however trivial, deeming it as beneath our notice.
We know so much about all that lies around us: the manner...
Author
Publisher
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Limited
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The story of Pele and her sister Hiiaka stands at the fountain-head of Hawaiian myth and is the matrix from which the unwritten literature of Hawaii drew its life-blood. The material for the elaboration of this story has, in part, been found in serial contributions to the Hawaiian newspapers during the last few decades; in part, gathered by interviews with the men and women of the older regime, in whose memory it has been stored and, again, in part,...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Institute
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Previous to the year 1906 the researches of the Bureau were restricted to the American Indians, but by act of Congress approved June 30 of that year the scope of its operations was extended to include the natives of the Hawaiian islands. Funds were not specifically provided, however, for prosecuting investigations among these people, and in the absence of an appropriation for this purpose it was considered inadvisable to restrict the systematic investigations...
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