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Giambattista Basile's 'The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones' (Fairy-Tale Studies)
by Giambattista Basile
Binding: Paperback, illustrated edition edition, 494 pages
Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
Weight: 2.25 pound
Dimension: H: 1.2 x L: 9.9 x W: 7 inches
ISBN 10: 0814328660
ISBN 13: 9780814328668
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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. The tales are bawdy and irreverent but also tender and whimsical, acute in psychological characterization and encyclopedic in description. They are also evocative of marvelous worlds of fairy tale unreality as well as of the everyday rituals of life in seventeenth century Naples. Yet because the original is written in the nonstandard Neopolitan dialect of Italian and last translated fully into English in 1932 this important piece of Baroque literature has long been inaccessible to both the general public and most fairy tale scholars

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