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The Robber with a Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach

The Robber with a Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach


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In one of the most stratling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasuretrove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set out to gether up the tales told and retold among the peasants. Gonzenbach collected wonderful stories, some on subjects that readers will know from the Grimms or Perrault, some entirely new, and published them in German. her early death and the destruction of her papers in the Messina earthquake of 1908 only add to the mystery behind her achievement. The Robber with the Witch's Head is an instant classic: a ninteenth century collection of stories in the great tradition of fairy and folk tales now translated into English for the first time. Gonzenbach delights us woth heroines and princes, socery and surprise, the deeds of the brave and the treacherous, and the magic of the true storyteller. Yet while the stories enchant us, the wry taglines with which they often end ('And so they remainedrich and consoled, while we keep sitting here and are getting old') gently bring us back to earth. The Robber with the Witch's Head M is the rcihest of gifts, a genuine literary surprise.

Table of Contents:
LAURA GONZENBACH’S BURIED TREASURE A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. THE CLEVER MAIDEN 2. THE ROBBER WITH A WITCH’S HEAD 3. THE CLEVER FARMER’S DAUGHTER 4. THE COUNT AND HIS SISTER 5. CLEVER PEPPE 6. MARIA, THE EVIL STEPMOTHER, AND THE SEVEN ROBBERS 7. BENSURDATU 8. THE ROOSTER WHO WANTED TO BECOME POPE 9. THE BRAVE PRINCE 10. THE INNKEEPER’S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER 11. THE BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN WITH THE SEVEN VEILS 12. THE MERCHANT’S CLEVER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER 13. MARUZZEDDA 14. ARMAIINU 15. THE GOLDEN LION 16. THE TWELVE ROBBERS 17. THREE GOOD PIECES OF ADVICE 18. TOBIÀ AND TOBIÒLA 19. JOSEPH THE JUST 20. THE TWO BROTHERS 21. THE SEVEN BROTHERS WITH MAGIC TALENTS 22. THE PIOUS YOUNG MAN WHO WENT TO ROME 23. SABEDDA AND HER BROTHER 24.THE CLEVER SHOEMAKER 25. THE TWINS 26. BEAUTIFUL INNOCENTA 27. THE WICKED SCHOOLMASTER AND THE WANDERING PRINCESS 28. THE FOUR PRINCESSES 29. ZAFARANA 30. PEASANT TRUTHFUL 31. ABOUT JOSEPH, WHO SET OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE 32. THE WASTEFUL GIOVANNINU 33. THE BANISHED QUEEN AND HER TWO ABANDONED CHILDREN 34. THE PIOUS CHILD 35. KATERINA’S FATE 36. GODFATHER DEATH 37. BEAUTIFUL ANNA 38. THE DRAGON SLAYER 39. SAINT JAMES OF GALICIA 40. THE HERMIT 41. THE PRINCE’S TWO CHILDREN FROM MONTELEONE 42. THE CLEVER FARMER

About the Author :

Laura Gonzenbach was born in Sicily to Swiss-German parents. Her collection of Sicilian fairy and folk tales was first published in 1870 in German. An Italian edition appeared in 2000.

Jack Zipes, one of the world's experts on fairy tales and folklore, is the acclaimed translator of the Complete Fairy Tales of the BrothersGrimm (Bantam), editor of the Oxford Companion to FairyTales, and the author of more than a dozen books on children's literature and culture, including Don't Bet onthe Prince, Sticks and Stones, and Creative Storytelling, all published by Routledge. He is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota.



Review :

"Thanks to Jack Zipes's tireless efforts, this long forgotten folkloric treasure has now been unearthed, to the utter delight of story lovers everywhere...Very highly recommended." -- Robert Rodriquez, Territorial Tattler

'Easy to read, elegantly illustrated by Jellin Rock, [the fairy tales] prove critically fascinating ...' - Francesca Orestano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415970693
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 262
  • Weight: 725 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415970695
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jul 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach
  • Width: 178 mm


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