Italian Popular Tales

by Thomas Frederick Crane

Book Overview

Originally published in 1885, Italian Popular Tales is a fascinating trove of fairy tales, legends, ghost stories, nursery tales, and jests, and other oral accounts that were collected, recorded, translated, and annotated by Thomas Crane, the first folklorist to bring the riches of Italian oral tradition to the English-speaking world.

Collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries unearthed a wealth of stories from around the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195219295
• ISBN13: 9780195219296
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"