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Tale Of Tales
Paperback Edition: 1
Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. The Tale of Tales opens with Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make
her smile; instead he leaves her cursed whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. To expose this impostor and win back her rightful husband, Zosa contrives a storytelling extravaganza: fifty fairy tales to be told by ten sharp-tongued women (including Zoza in disguise) over five days.
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Pages : 544
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Publication date : 2016-05
Subjects: Fiction, Non-fiction, Contemporary, Social Sciences, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Sociology, Folklore, Myths & Legends