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Tale of Tales

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Tale of Tales
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The name of Giambattista Basile (1583-1632), the author of "Fairy Tales of Fairy Tales", has only recently become known to Russian-speaking readers, and yet he is quite familiar with the stories of Basile - in the arrangement of Charles Perrault, Carlo Gozzi and the Brothers Grimm. In the Neapolitan author, however, these vagrant plots often take on a completely unexpected coloring: he has and Cinderella is able to give a worthy rebuff to the stepmother, and sleeping beauty after awakening behaves far from the best way ... Frivolous and even cruel plots, the intervention of fairies and orcs, heroes who do not go for a word in the pocket, the hotness of youth and the despondency of old age, edification and adventure - all of this fits into a five-day fairy-tale marathon, in fifty entertaining and instructive stories (hence another name of the book - "Pentameron", "five days"). The edition is illustrated with works by English artist Warwick Goble.
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