Fr. 27.90

Bedtime Stories

English · Hardback

Shipping usually within 1 to 3 weeks (not available at short notice)

Description

Read more

Informationen zum Autor Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of several short-story anthologies in the Everyman Pocket Classics series, including Christmas Stories, Lullabies and Poems for Children , Love Stories , Cat Stories and Stories from the Kitchen . Klappentext As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' to the unspeakable horror that haunts two little girls in A. S. Byatt's 'The Thing in the Forest', from Washington Irving's comical 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' to Ursula K. LeGuin's sly perspective on Sleeping Beauty in 'The Poacher', these spellbinding stories transform the stuff of fables and fairy tales into high art. Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Isak Dinesen, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, Haruki Murakami and many more mingle their voices in this one-volume gateway to dreams - the perfect bedside companion for fiction lovers everywhere Zusammenfassung The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. LeGuin's sly perspective on Sleeping Beauty in 'The Poacher', these spellbinding stories transform the stuff of fables and fairy tales into high art.

Product details

Authors Diana Secker Tesdell, D Secker Tesdell, Diana Secker Tesdell
Assisted by Diana Secker Tesdell (Editor), Secker Tesdell Diana (Editor)
Publisher Everyman's Library UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 25.03.2011
 
EAN 9781841596082
ISBN 978-1-84159-608-2
No. of pages 400
Dimensions 123 mm x 189 mm x 30 mm
Series Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Myth & legend told as fiction, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.