Popular Tales and Fictions
Subtitle: Their Migrations and Transformations (Classic Folk and Fairytales)
Contributors: Christine Goldberg (Editor)
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9781576076163
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Myth & legend told as fiction; Social Science; Folklore & Mythology; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; General; Folklore; Fairy tales; Tales
First sentence: A FAVOURITE ornament of popular fictions, remarks Price, in his edition of Warton's 'History of English Poetry,' "is the highly gifted object which is to supply the fortunate owner with the gratification of some particular wish, or to furnish him with the golden means of gratifying every want."