Giambattista Basile

• Jan-2006
• / General Fiction
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Same motif appears again and again in this collection of fairy tales. This is a compilation where the princesses struggle to find their only love but are tricked on the way. The work with its amazing world of imagination is bound to capture juvenile ...

• May-2007
• / Fantasy
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The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella...

• Apr-2016
• / Fantasy
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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 ...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...