Jeremiah Curtin (1835–1906)
Auteur van Celtic Fairy Tales
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Fotografie: Curtin in December 1905
Werken van Jeremiah Curtin
Awaswas Wordlist 2 exemplaren
Mõrvarlikud vaimud : Iiri haldja- ja vaimujutud : Munsteri edelaosast kogutud suulised rahvapärimused (2011) 2 exemplaren
Myths and folk-tales 2 exemplaren
Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin 2 exemplaren
"Achomawi Myths," 1 exemplaar
Wonder tales from Russia 1 exemplaar
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 1 exemplaar
Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World collected from oral tradition in the south-west Munster 1 exemplaar
Introduction to Seneca fiction legends and myths 1 exemplaar
Tales of the fairies and of the ghost world : collected from oral tradition in south-west Munster 1 exemplaar
The Three Daughters of King O'Hara 1 exemplaar
The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin 1 exemplaar
The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia (The Trilogy #2) 1 exemplaar
Thaitin Se Le peig: Irish na Hoichreachta 1 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Curtin, Jeremiah
- Geboortedatum
- 1835-09-06
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1906-12-14
- Graflocatie
- Bristol, Vermont, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Burlington, Vermont, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Greenfield, Wisconsin, USA,
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bristol, Vermont, USA
New York, New York, USA
Russian Empire - Opleiding
- Harvard University
- Beroepen
- author
ethnographer
translator
linguist
ministerial secretary - Relaties
- Curtin, Alma Cardell (wife)
- Organisaties
- Bureau of American Ethnology
U.S. Sanitary Commission
Russian Imperial Court
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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales door Joseph Jacobs
Skill levels among the readers varied widely, generally stripping the stories of their intended humor or romance.
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This is NOT written as a children's book. The language in this book is written in Old English and reads more like a Shakepearean sonnet. I bought this to add to my young son's library, but it is not appropriate for that. I'm sure however that adults who can read Old English with ease would find this book entertaining.
Fairy tales, or rather fairy stories, if that's a distinction meaningful outside of my own head, about sons and daughters and Fionn, who is a son, and the things they do, fighting giants, playing games of chance and always losing the third, stealing clothes from magician's daughters who change into swans, fighting the armies of the king of Spain, outwitting hags, getting a hell of a lot of wise and/or magical help to see them through their adventures, marrying up and making out like bandits. The repetitions and similarities grate at first, but soon the tales work their magic and you feel the rhythm and the cadences, the comfort of the familiar patterns and things that aren't so much repeated as shared. Alien to a modern audience, not really prose and certainly not poetry, artifacts of a different time and yet the very stuff our dreams are made of.… (meer)
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- 2,250
- Populariteit
- #11,400
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 17
- ISBNs
- 203
- Talen
- 7