books: collected tales

books: collected tales

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Collected tales

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 25th Anniversary Edition: Collected from American Folklore (Scary Stories)

Alvin Schwartz

HarperTrophy, 1986

They're A Scream!
Back in about 1995, my wife bought Scary Stories for our young son. I'd turn the lights off and tell them to him as I was tucking him in for the night. He'd scream bloody murder when I'd grab him. It was a lot of fun. It's 2008 now and our son is in the Army, but ...

Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales

Christianna Brand

Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2005

Nurse Matilda
Always interesting to read the original of something made into a movie. Great book with great stories. Enjoyable for all.

Ireland's Master Storyteller: The Collected Stories of Eamon Kelly
Eamon Kelly

Mercier Press, 1998

In this collection, actor and seanchai (traditional storyteller) Eamon KellyÃ?s finest stories are collected for the first time: stories of the real Kerry and the magical past of the Goban Saor, the heartbreak of emigration, the stations, the priests, the courting and dancing, the war between the sexes. Kelly mines a rich seam of humour and ...

Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest : Based on Stories Originally Collected by Juan B. Rael

Jose Griego Y Maestas

Museum of New Mexico Press, 1980

Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest
This is a very entertaining collection of folk tales in bilingual Spanish/English format. The stories range from funny anecdotes of life, to tales that teach the wisdom of the people of the Southwest, to tales of witchcraft. The translations are sometimes even better ...

The Collected Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Nikolai Gogol

Everyman's Library, 2008

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace , Crime and Punishment , and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol?s short fiction. Collected here are Gogol?s finest tales?stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of ...

The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda
Christianna Brand

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

The incorrigible Brown children, who devour nannies, nurse-maids, and governesses, finally meet their match.

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

Vintage, 1999

Sheer Genius (and a good translation)
This is the kind of writing that makes me questions why movies even exist. The style, the sentences, the humor, the feel is all something unique, unpredictable, and unmistakable. These plots are bizarre, intriguing and it is nearly impossible to guess the endings. All ...

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

H. P. Lovecraft, T. E. Klein, ...

Arkham House Publishers, 1986

The Lovecraft Experience
In my humble opinion, there are two ways to read Lovecraft. The first, and best, is to get your hands on an original "Wierd Tales" or other pulp. There is something about the musty smell that adds to the tale. For true conisours, read them under the covers with a ...

Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays: Volume 2: 1891-1910 (Library of America)

Mark Twain

Library of America, 1992

Mark Twain means "Deep Enough"
This book is a joy to read. Though not all the short works contained within are "classics", you will find satire, history, editorials, mischief, slices-of-life, without knowing by the title of any given work what you'll really be getting in the pages that follow (all ...

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Doubleday, 1966

The Enduring Master of the Macabre
Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809, died October 7, 1849. What is it that makes an author famous? I don't mean famous in the sense a news article reports that "Jack Greylea's novels sold 15 million copies last year," but in the sense ...

Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass: The Art of Telling Tales About Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (The ...

Hugh Nibley

Shadow Mountain, 1991

Essential reading for apologetics and critics
In this thorough book, Nibley reveals the real stories behind criticism of the LDS (Mormon) Church. Once you understand where some of these tales originated, the weak foundations of the most frequently-heard attacks on the Church become crystal clear, and sometimes ...

An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the WPA Montana Writers Project
WPA Montana's Writer's Project, Megan Hiller, ...

TwoDot, 1999

Collection of stories from the Montana Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) based on oral history interviews and researched folklore.

English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs

CreateSpace, 2008

The English Brother Grimm
Joseph Jacobs collected folk and fairy tales on the British Isles over a hundred years ago. His work is fascinating and useful for a teller of tales, such as myself. In his collections you will find some variations of tales collected by Brothers Grimm and others that ...

Collected Tales and Fantasies of Lord Berners: Including Percy Wallingford, the Camel, Mr. Pidger, Count ...

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners

Turtle Point Press, 1999

A writer, too?
I've loved Lord Berners' music for years. And I knew he was an eccentric. But these pieces knocked me out. Wry, ironic, hilarious, skewed, but also humane. He's someone I wish I'd had dinner with; I suspect it would have been a memorable encounter.

Beyond the Looking Glass

Jonathan Cott

Overlook Juvenile, 1985

Incredible book
Found this book used in a bookstore. Must admit the cover attracted me...but what a treasure it has been.