The tale of tales, or, Entertainment for little ones
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Contributors
Canepa, Nancy L., 1957- translator.
Published
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016.
Status
Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Basile, G.
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Published
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
lxvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-466) and index.
Description
Before the Brothers Grimm, before Charles Perrault, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was Giambattista Basile, a seventeenth-century poet from Naples, Italy, whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. The Tale of Tales opens with Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed, whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. To expose this impostor and win back her rightful husband, Zoza contrives a storytelling extravaganza: fifty fairy tales to be told by ten sharp-tongued women (including Zoza in disguise) over five days. Funny and scary, romantic and gruesome -- and featuring a childless queen who devours the heart of a sea monster cooked by a virgin, and who then gives birth the very next day; a lecherous king aroused by the voice of a woman, whom he courts unaware of her physical grotesqueness; and a king who raises a flea to monstrous size on his own blood, sparking a contest in which an ogre vies with men for the hand of the king's daughter -- The Tale of Tales is a fairy-tale treasure that prefigures Game of Thrones and other touchstones of worldwide fantasy literature.--provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Basile, G., & Canepa, N. L. (2016). The tale of tales, or, Entertainment for little ones . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Basile, Giambattista, approximately 1575-1632 and Nancy L. Canepa. 2016. The Tale of Tales, Or, Entertainment for Little Ones. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Basile, Giambattista, approximately 1575-1632 and Nancy L. Canepa. The Tale of Tales, Or, Entertainment for Little Ones Penguin Books, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Basile, Giambattista, and Nancy L. Canepa. The Tale of Tales, Or, Entertainment for Little Ones Penguin Books, 2016.
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