{"product_id":"beautiful-angiola-9780415968089","title":"Beautiful Angiola","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set out to gather 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeautiful Angiola\u003c\/em\u003e is an instant classic: a nineteenth-century collection of stories in the great tradition of fairy and folk tales now translated into English for the first time. Gonzenbach delights us with heroines and princes, sorcery and surprise, the deeds of the brave and the treacherous, and the magic of the true storyteller. \u003cem\u003eThe Green Bird\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Humiliated Princess\u003c\/em\u003e, sorfarina, \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Cane\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Golden Donkey\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ethe Little Stick that Hits\u003c\/em\u003e are titles destined to become new favourites for readers everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet while the stories enchant us, the wry taglines with which they often end (\"And so they remained rich and consoled, while we keep sitting here and are getting old\") gently bring us back to earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47588814979308,"sku":"9780415968089","price":113.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780415968089-beautiful-angiola.jpg?v=1777597152","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/beautiful-angiola-9780415968089","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}