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The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile (Paperback, 2016)

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By Giambattista Basile. 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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.

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The Tale of Talesis a fairy-tale treasure that prefiguresGame of Thronesand other touchstones of worldwide fantasy literature. Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. The Tale of Tales 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, Zosa 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 kings and queens, dragons and seduction, The Tale of Tales is a fairy-tale treasure that prefigures Game of Thrones and other touchstones of worldwide fantasy literature

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD

ISBN-139780143129141

eBay Product ID (ePID)221121122

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Book TitleThe Tale of Tales

AuthorGiambattista Basile

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicBooks

Publication Year2016

Number of Pages494 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height216mm

Item Width141mm

Item Weight434g

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Title_AuthorGiambattista Basile

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by catenscat
06 Dec, 2017
The original classic nursery rhymes for grown-ups
Delightfully written short stories with a moral at the end. Funny, sad and wise.
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