Excerpt from Nursery Tales From Many Lands IN the far-off days when the story-teller watched his listeners in order to let their faces guide or quicken his inspiration he must have been in close sympathy with the eager children who stood near him. Some times he pleased their vivid imaginations with a cumulative tale in which the emphasis of rhythmic repetitions helped the story to unfold simply and directly and at the same time gave the delighted children a feeling of growing familiarity with each recurring cycle. Or ...
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Excerpt from Nursery Tales From Many Lands IN the far-off days when the story-teller watched his listeners in order to let their faces guide or quicken his inspiration he must have been in close sympathy with the eager children who stood near him. Some times he pleased their vivid imaginations with a cumulative tale in which the emphasis of rhythmic repetitions helped the story to unfold simply and directly and at the same time gave the delighted children a feeling of growing familiarity with each recurring cycle. Or perhaps he told a simple folk tale in which the actors - human beings or animals revealed in their experiences some hint of a universal truth. Sometimes a genuine fairy-tale with a well} developed plot was his theme, and by means of artistic imagery he flashed forth the lasting vision of an ideal. Through the ages the story-teller's tales have been bequeathed as a rich inheritance to the children of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Add this copy of Nursery Tales From Many Lands (Classic Reprint) to cart. $18.71, new condition, Sold by Paperbackshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bensenville, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Forgotten Books.
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Good. 7 1/2 inches, 129 pages, illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright, color frontis, drawings throughout with several full page, contents pages give ethnic origin by title (including native American and "Negro"), gray cloth over boards with color frontis reproduced on front board, black titles. Spine slightly cocked, boards spotted and soiled, edges lightly worn, corners worn to board and frayed, spine ends softened and frayed, endpapers age toned with ink gift inscription on front fixed endpaper, scattered light soil, otherwise contents very good and binding is tight. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!
Add this copy of Nursery Tales From Many Lands (Classic Reprint) to cart. $41.12, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Forgotten Books.
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Add this copy of Nursery Tales From Many Lands to cart. $70.00, very good condition, Sold by Olmstead Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Port Dover, ON, CANADA, published 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Blanche Fisher Wright. Very Good. Green cloth boards with paper colour illustration of a rabbit and house. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. An 'A' at base of copyright page. There are many B&W illustrations and very light wear. Pages 129.
