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Sto caricando le informazioni... Jack the Giant Killer (1842)di Richard Doyle
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Jack runs around killing giants, using his cleverness, courage, and magic cloak and sword. Doyle is retelling old folk tales here, and some remind me of Thor's clever helper Thialfi. Doyle's prose is unobjectionable but nothing special. Read it for his wonderful illustrations - full of personality and humor, sometimes gruesome, always entertaining. ( ) A copy of the 1842 classic, complete with Richard Doyle's grotesque illustrations. It's a weird little book; I think the pictures would've freaked me out a bit when I was a kid, as even Jack looks rather evil, and the giants are pretty intense. A fun artifact, though, and it really shows what children's literature used to be... nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants, has been told to children for hundreds of years. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and the grotesque, created a picture-book version of Jack the Giant Killer, with hand-written text and a watercolor within a pictorial border decorating every page. It has remained one of the most beloved versions of this timeless tale.In this new Everyman's edition, Doyle's vivid, wonderfully engaging illustrations have been enlarged and the text has been given greater legibility. It is a book that will satisfy both the child's delight in scariness, wonder, and magic, and the collector's pleasure in classic Victorian illustration. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)398.22Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literature Legendary or mythological personsClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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