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Tricks of women & other Albanian tales / translated by Paul Fenimore Cooper, with an introduction by Burton Rascoe; woodcuts by Ilse M. Bischoff.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 C7872 D928t
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Paul Fenimore, 1899-1970, compiler, translator.
- Language:
- Albanian
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Albania.
- Tales.
- Albania.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 204 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Rahway, N. J. : Printed in the U. S. A. by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
- Other Title:
- Tricks of women and other Albanian tales
- Tricks of women
- Albanian tales.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow & Company, MCMXXVIII [1928]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The two robbers
- The beardless men and the peasant
- The devils duped
- Tricks of women
- Black Uzengia
- He who does good finds evil
- The language of beasts, wild animals, and birds
- The rooster and the hen
- The weaver
- The violin player
- Fate lies ahead
- Mary of the Ashes
- The boy who played the tambourine
- The candlestick
- The nightingale Gizari
- You're "that" kind
- A letter from the world of the dead.
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1928 by William Morrow & Company, Inc."
- Illustrated lining-papers; head and tail pieces.
- "The stories in this volume are of the southern, or Tosk, dialect and come from two collections both made by foreigners. The five shorter ones, except Fate Lies Ahead, were, with others, taken down by Auguste Dozon some fifty years ago. As nearly as possible he reproduced the sounds of the spoken language on paper and published the tales with a grammar and vocabulary. The longer ones come from the work of Holger Pedersen ... his stories represent but part of a large number he took down from the recitations of one Albanian man."--Preface.
- Black cloth boards with lettering in white on spine. Front cover has woodcut illustration stamped in white.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection has unopened leaves.
- OCLC:
- 1301499
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