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Tales of the amber ring / told by Milos̆ Malý ; illustrated by Petr Sís ; translated by Vladimír Var̆̌echa.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.M35 Ta 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malý, Miloš.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--Estonia.
- Fairy tales.
- Fairy tales--Latvia.
- Fairy tales--Lithuania.
- Fairy tales--Finland.
- Finland.
- Estonia.
- Latvia.
- Lithuania.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- [First English edition].
- Manufacture:
- Prague, Czechoslovakia : Printed by Svoboda.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Orbis Publishing, [1985]
- Summary:
- Tales from the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as Finland.
- Contents:
- The bird and the amber ring
- The ash tree
- The woodcutter, the devil and the princess
- The king of the Misty Mountain
- Why the tomcat does not wash till after meals
- Luck and the gold duck
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- Egle
- The cock and the hen
- The tale of the mirror
- The three knots
- The horse and the gnat
- Why owls hoot
- Who calls for the rain?
- Good advice beyond price
- The wisdom of crows
- The tale of the old soldier
- The old soldier and death
- The quarrelsome brothers
- The sun, the frost and the wind
- There is no man like the blacksmith
- The spider and the fly
- The blue kerchief
- A greater coward than the hare
- The king's counsellor
- The maiden from the oak frame
- Cough and ague
- The three brothers
- The magic table
- How the poor peasant came to his senses
- Pride goes before a fall
- Why the moon has spots
- Woman - the devil's superior
- How the bricklayer outwitted the devil
- A good man
- How the devil learned to snore
- The cock and the thief
- The thief's apprentice
- The animals and the cottager
- The old man's advice
- The end of the tale of bird bulbulis and the amber ring.
- Notes:
- "First English edition translated from the Czech and published in Great Britain by Orbis Publishing, London 1985."
- Graphic design by Sylvie Mikulcová"--t.p. verso.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy has pink slips placed in front of certain color illustrations.
- ISBN:
- 0856135313
- 9780856135316
- OCLC:
- 14409184
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