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Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Publishing Group, 1996. 1996. Paperback. xv, 272pp. This collection of ninety-three tales offers readers a unique look at Chinese culture through the lens of its oral tradition. Virtually every region of China is represented here, and many of these authentic folktales have never before been made available to the English-speaking world. Book in very good condition. Light creasing to lower corner of front cover and following few pages, otherwise little evidence of use.
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Chinese Folktales
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Magical Folk. British & irish Fairies. 500 AD to the Present. First edition.
by Young, Simon and Houlbrook, Ceri
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London: Gibson Square Books, 2018. First edition. Hardback. 256pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. When Tinker Bell followed Peter Pan to Hollywood in the 1950s, fairies vanished into the realm of child-lore. Yet in 1923 30-yea-old J.R.R. Tolkien's visit to his aunt's house (Bag's End) inspired a story about hedgerow fairies or 'Hobbits', and three years earlier Arthur Conan Doyle published the Cottingley fairy photographs. In Ireland, a generation before, family members had torched a woman to death thinking she was a fairy, while William Butler Yeats met a fairy queen in a coastal cave. Today British & Irish fairy interest has recovered its old lustre, and gathered here is the latest learning from leading folklorists and historians. A tidal-wave of new fairy sightings has been uncovered by the digitisation of British and Irish newspapers and ephemera, There are fairy sightings in urbanised locations and remote rural areas: characters and means to ward off evil fairies…
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