Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
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Book Description
Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace, and when they recorded these elegant narratives they consciously invented the modern fairy tale as we still know it today.
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Book Information
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Paperback (4 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 256 |
ISBN-10 | 0195178211 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0195178210 |
Publication Date | 11/04/2004 |
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About Sophie Herxheimer (Illustrator) : I write and draw every day, and am currently illustrating a version of the Ramayana, called Rama and Sita, Path of Flames. It is written by storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton. It is beautiful: full of r... more
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