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American fairy tales, a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Such stories typically feature entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.
In addition to American Fairy Tales, Baum's Dot and Tot of Merryland and The Master Key appeared in 1901. Publisher George M. Hill sold the serialization rights to the twelve stories in AFT to five major newspapers, the Pittsburgh Dispatch, The Boston Post, The Cincinnati Enquirer, the St. Louis Republic, and The Chicago Chronicle. The stories ...
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 by multiple authors; American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens; American Places by Wallace and Page Stegner; American Scriptures: An Anthology of Sacred Writings edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp; American Supernatural Tales edited by S. T. Joshi; Amerika by Franz Kafka; America is in the ...
Native American cultures are rich in myths and legends that explain natural phenomena and the relationship between humans and the spirit world. According to Barre Toelken, feathers, beadwork, dance steps and music, the events in a story, the shape of a dwelling, or items of traditional food can be viewed as icons of cultural meaning.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of American plays: 0-9 ... A Bronx Tale (1988), by Chazz Palminteri;
Tales of Mystery and Terror: Marjorie P. Katz Edgar Allan Poe: Anthology including The Cask of Amontillado, The Gold Bug, The Fall of The House of Usher, and The Tell-Tale Heart: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: B224-14 Deidre S. Laiken 1885 Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: 224-6 1876 The Call of the Wild: 224-3 Mitsu Yamamoto 1903 ...
List of 19th-century British children's literature titles; List of Australian crime-related books and media; List of anonymously published works; List of autobiographies; Lists of banned books; List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature; List of books by year of publication