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The Fair Folk and Little Orphan Mary : A Tale about Gnomes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Konopnicka, Maria.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- A classic children’s tale about Gnomes, appealing equally, if not more so, to the adult child. Written in rich, lyrical prose, frequently shifting into the peasant dialect and interspersed with sundry verses and songs, the tale is replete with mytho-folkloric motifs, legends, superstitions, historical and biblical references, magical depictions of natural phenomena, the sunsets, the twilights, the dawns; the changing seasons, the shadows, the colors, the sounds and silences, Poland’s diverse landscape, her fields, forests and mountains, along with her flora and fauna, and realistic descriptions of late 19th-century Polish rural life. Not least among The Fair Folk’s charms is the author’s whimsical sense of humor-a humor that often rises to a level of high hilarity.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Translator’s Preface
- 1 How King Glistel’s Court Chronicler Discovered Spring
- 2 Spratkin’s Expedition
- 3 King Glistel Leaves the Crystal Grotto
- 4 Spratkin Meets Little Orphan Mary
- 5 Good Times
- 6 Maestro Sarabanda’s Concert
- 7 Bluebonnet and His Student
- 8 At the Palace of the Mountain Queen
- 9 Midsummer’s Night Eve
- 10 A Thief in the Night
- 11 Half-Lord’s Alms
- 12 The Gnomes Retire Underground
- A Short Biography of Maria Konopnicka (1842–1910)
- About the Translator
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9798887196909
- OCLC:
- 1484073700
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