The Tale of Tales [electronic resource]
Giambattista Basile2016
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"Now a major motion picture starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones,
and Vincent Cassel: a rollicking, bawdy, fantastical cycle of 50 fairy tales
told by 10 storytellers over 5 days
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 Tale of Tales -also known as The Pentamerone -opens with
Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the
king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed, whereupon the
prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. To expose this
impostor and win back her rightful husband, Zoza contrives a storytelling
extravaganza: fifty fairy tales to be told by ten sharp-tongued women (including
Zoza in disguise) over five days.
Funny and scary, romantic and gruesome-and featuring a chil...
Main title:
The Tale of Tales [electronic resource] / Giambattista Basile
Author:
Giambattista Basile, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Classics, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (528)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781101991787
Language:
English
BRN:
438292
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |