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Czech Folktales
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The determined and lively Czech people offer their lively perspectives on life through their vivid folk and fairy tales. The Czech people trace their roots through medieval Bohemia and further back to the ancient Western Slavs before the start of the Viking Age. Their lively stories...
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Czech Folktales
With a fresh introduction this new collection will acquaint you with classic tales such as 'The Three Roses' and 'The Witch and the Horseshoes'. The lively stories of the Czech people are parables and moral fables – rich with satire they cling to the hope that all will come well in the end, that justice will be well served by truth.
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The determined and lively Czech people offer their lively perspectives on life through their vivid folk and fairy tales. The Czech people trace their roots through medieval Bohemia and further back to the ancient Western Slavs before the start of the Viking Age.
Their lively stories are parables and moral fables, rich with satire and the weave of determination in the face of grim reality. With a new introduction, this new collection brings you classic tales including The Three Roses, The Witch and the Horseshoes, The Haunted Mill, and The Soldier and the Devil.
Such stories cling to the fantasy that all will come well in the end and that justice will be well served by truth, common threads in the proud folklore of the Slavic peoples throughout the world.
Author: Jake Jackson has written, edited, and contributed to over 20 books on mythology and folklore. Related works include studies of Babylonian creation myths, the philosophy of time, and William Blake's use of mythology in his visionary literature.
10 b/w line drawings
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804177815
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 February 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing
Edition: New edition
Illustration: 10 Line drawings, black and white
Contributors:
- General editor J.K. Jackson
- Introduction by Dr Rajendra Chitnis
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 176g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Jake Jackson has written, edited and contributed to over 20 books on mythology and folklore. Related works include studies of Babylonian creation myths, the philosophy of time and William Blake's use of mythology in his visionary literature. Rajendra Chitnis is associate professor of Czech and Slovak at the University of Oxford, where he teaches Czech and Slovak literature from the fourteenth century to the present. He writes mainly on twentieth-century and contemporary Czech, Russian and Slovak literature. He is the author of Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe (2005) and Vladislav Vancura: The Heart of the Czech Avant-garde (2007) and lead editor of Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations (2020).
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