Résumé
If you were looking for the definitive Fairy Tales anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!"The Big Book of Fairy Tales" gathers together more than 1500 tales, which makes it truly unique in its kind.Here you will find some of the finest stories from around the globe, including classics from The Thousand and One Nights such as ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Sinbad the Sailor’, Hans Christian Andersen’s complete tales (‘The Ugly Ducking’, ‘Little Tin Soldier’, ‘The Little Match girl’ and many more), The Brothers Grimm's complete tales, Charles Perrault's complete stories (such as ‘Blue Beard’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Puss in Boots’) and other tales with less well known literary lineages.
Auteur
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Charles Perrault (1628-1703) contrôleur général des Bâtiments, académicien, auteur de poèmes, d'épopées, de pièces, de mémoires, doit pourtant la postérité à ses Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), où l'on trouve le conte de La Belle au bois dormant. Ce conte traditionnel, dont on connaît d'autres versions écrites (dans Le conte des contes de Basile antérieurement, puis chez les frères Grimm) n'a pas cessé d'intriguer.
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Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure in the aestheticism movement, engaging in various literary activities such as publishing poems and lecturing on art. He gained fame with his only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which incorporated themes of decadence and beauty. Wilde also wrote successful society comedies and was one of the most renowned playwrights of late-Victorian London. However, his fame was overshadowed by a scandal when he prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, leading to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labor. During his imprisonment, he wrote his last work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Wilde's life was marked by personal tragedies, including the death of his sister and the loss of his reputation. He left a lasting legacy as a writer and is remembered for his wit and literary contributions.
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James Baldwin naît en 1924. Écrivain américain, auteur de romans, de poésies, de nouvelles, de théâtre et d'essais, il habite successivement à Paris, Londres, et Istambul, avant de revenir aux États-Unis. Il y enseigne la littérature. Son œuvre la plus connue est son premier roman semi-autobiographique intitulé La Conversion ( Go Tell It on the Mountain ), paru en 1953. Il passe la fin de sa vie en France, où il meurt en 1983.
Auteur(s) : Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Joseph Jacobs, Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Arndt, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Robert Nisbet Bain, James Baldwin, Aleksander Chodźko, Thomas Frederick Crane, Jeremiah Curtin, Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy, Jean De Bosschère, Elsie Spicer Eells, Peter Henry Emerson, Mary H. Foster, Mabel H. Cummings, William Henry Frost, William Elliot Griffis, Grace James, Mite Kremnitz, Edmund Leamy, William Ralston, Klara Stroebe
Caractéristiques
Auteur(s) : Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Joseph Jacobs, Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Arndt, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Robert Nisbet Bain, James Baldwin, Aleksander Chodźko, Thomas Frederick Crane, Jeremiah Curtin, Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy, Jean De Bosschère, Elsie Spicer Eells, Peter Henry Emerson, Mary H. Foster, Mabel H. Cummings, William Henry Frost, William Elliot Griffis, Grace James, Mite Kremnitz, Edmund Leamy, William Ralston, Klara Stroebe
Publication : 9 janvier 2020
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Aucune (ePub)
Taille(s) : 9,62 Mo (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9789897787638
