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6321) The Metamorphoses
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The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
6323) Japanese Fairy Tales
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Tuttle Publishing
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2011
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English
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This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories—providing insight into a rich literary culture.
The rich world of Japanese fantasy is very apparent in Japanese Fairy Tales, a compilation of twenty-two favorite stories from the land of the rising sun. A fantastic selection of ghouls, goblins and ogres, sea serpents and sea kings, kindly animals and magic birds, demons...
The rich world of Japanese fantasy is very apparent in Japanese Fairy Tales, a compilation of twenty-two favorite stories from the land of the rising sun. A fantastic selection of ghouls, goblins and ogres, sea serpents and sea kings, kindly animals and magic birds, demons...
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John Colarusso is professor of anthropology and modern languages and linguistics at McMaster University, and one of the world's most distinguished scholars of comparative linguistics. Adrienne Mayor is a research scholar in classics and history of science at Stanford University.
The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura El árbol de los deseos de William Faulkner, un relato que parece un cuento destinado al público joven y que retrata la aventura que vive en sueños la pequeña Dulcie en la víspera de su cumpleaños. En compañía de un extraño y pequeño mago, va en busca del «Árbol de los Deseos» y aprende una valiosa lección.
¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo hemos...
6326) Haints of the Hills
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Haints of the Hills collects ghost stories from North Carolina's mountainous west as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around campfires, in grandma's attic, and on nighttime drives on the curvy roads of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There is a story for each county in western North Carolina, twenty-seven in all, among them tales of ghosts, witches, demons, spook lights, unidentified flying objects, unexplained...
6327) Seaside Spectres
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Seaside Spectres collects ghost stories from the coastal region of North Carolina as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around beach campfires, in grandma's attic, and on nighttime drives to the coast. There are thirty-three stories in all, one for each coastal county, including tales of ghosts, witches, demons, spook lights, unidentified flying objects, unexplained phenomena, and more.
In "The Cursed Town,"...
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Extrait : "On chercherait peut-être vainement dans les poésies nationales du Béarn et de la Bigorre, à part quelques récits d'histoire effacés, d'autres peintures que celles de la vie pastorale, d'autre sentiment que celui de l'amour, d'autres tristesses que celles de la misère. La muse simple, naïve et parfois spirituelle de Pyrénées chante, assise sur l'herbe aromatique, les doux mouvements des coeurs."
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Lisette, la grenouille qui croyait être bête, Sacha, le chat obsédé par une pelote de laine...
À travers des histoires illustrées par l'auteur, et qui célèbrent la différence, ce livre de contes thérapeutiques parlera à votre âme de vos blessures d'enfance, et charmera votre inconscient pour que vous vous aimiez davantage.
Un livre de contes qui abordent la thématique de la différence et s'adressent aux enfants qui sommeillent en nous!
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Parfois,...
6330) Turning Over the Leaf
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Turning Over the Leaf is a journey about facing challenges in life and not letting fears hold you back from pursuing your dreams. This story is based on true events and is crafted to help inspire those who may need a hand in getting back up and trying again.
6331) Le beau du lion d'or
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Dans un royaume éloigné, un jeune aubergiste nommé Philippe tient l'établissement « Au Lion d'Or ». Lors de son service, il rencontre le prince Jules, et une passion intense naît entre eux. Invité à une fête villageoise par Jules, qui lui révèle ses sentiments, leur bonheur semble parfait. Cependant, Elektra, une femme arrogante, malveillante et maléfique, veut entraîner Philippe vers les ténèbres. L'amour de Philippe pour Jules l'en...
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Quelle est l'évolution de ce félin devenu aujourd'hui un animal domestique ?
Comme tous les animaux, le chat a une histoire, assortie de légendes noires ou dorées. Ce petit félin a également une préhistoire bien plus ancienne que celle de l'homme, et il en garde la mémoire. Enfin, les initiés prêtent sept vies au Chat, voire neuf.
C'est dire la richesse du personnage !
Cet ouvrage richement illustré vous propose de parcourir l'histoire...
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Extrait: "Regrettez-vous le temps o le Ciel favorisait la Terre de continuels prodiges, suspendait sans cesse les lois de la Nature, et manifestait par les œuvres des thaumaturges, ses énergiques volontés? Regrettez-vous le temps o les anges, messagers divins, exécutaient au milieu des hommes les mandats du Très-Haut; o les astres mêmes obéissent à la voix des mortels, et les éléments domptés, à nos impatients désirs?"
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John Colarusso is professor of anthropology and modern languages and linguistics at McMaster University and one of the world's most distinguished scholars of comparative linguistics. He is the author of The Northwest Caucasian Languages: A Phonological Survey and A Grammar of the Kabardian Language. He is also the editor of Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends from the Circassians and Abkhazians (Princeton). Tamerlan Salbiev is professor of English...
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Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales...
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Jack Zipes is the editor and translator of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton) and the editor of The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton). He is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Natalie Frank is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Her work is held in multiple museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn...
6337) Piedmont Phantoms
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Piedmont Phantoms collects ghost stories from the populous central region of North Carolina as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around campfires, in grandma's attic, and on nighttime drives on the backroads of the Piedmont. There is a story for each county in the Piedmont, forty in all, including tales of ghosts, witches, demons, spook lights, unidentified flying objects, unexplained phenomena, and more.
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6338) Les Cinq Sens
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Extrait : "Dans l'antiquité, on portait beaucoup plus d'attention que de nos jours à la beauté des oreilles. Elien, qui nous a conservé dans ses écrits le portrait de la célèbre Aspasie, cite, parmi ses perfections, une oreille courte et bien détachée de la tête. Martial met au nombre des difformités d'une femme de son temps, celle d'avoir les oreilles trop longues. Cependant, les petites oreilles ne passèrent pas toujours pour être les...
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Elements of Cadence volume 1
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English
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Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind...
6340) Ordinary Wonder Tales
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A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine, and reveals the magic in the everyday.
"I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart. "I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories." In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals...
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