Greek Fairy Tales
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Wilson, Barbara Ker
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1968
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Fourteen of the thirty-seven stories told here are fables. They are well told, with a certain fullness. All fourteen match closely versions that Wilson uses in her Animal Folk Tales (1968/71). The foreword has two good comments. Fairy tales like these have no fairies in them; the mark of fairy stories is that they have some quality of magic. And though most stories here come from the oral tradition of modern Greece, Wilson wants to include animal stories for children, and so she turns to Aesopic fables. The fables are now accepted as well-loved first cousins to the `fairy tale'. Well told: The Ass and the Wolf (#8). Differently told: The Ant and the Beetle (#2). Both this beetle and the ass laden with sponges (#15) die. In #18 the fox eats the dead deer's brains. In #30 the lamb grabbed by the hungry shepherd happens to be the wolf.
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Follett
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1419 (Access ID)