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Flame Tree Collector's Editions Mythology
Viking Folk & Fairy Tales: Fables, Folklore & Ancient Stories
The source for many of the stories of Hans Christan Andersen and Brothers Grimm, the Viking storytelling heritage offers a lively conversation with the natural world.
Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard work, the honest and the faithful are valued by the treasured tales from Hans Christian Andersen, such as 'The Little Match Girl', and less well known stories such as 'Katie Woodencloak' (a Norwegian Version of Cinderella) by Asbjørnsen & Moe are some of the heartwarming pieces in this new selection for the modern reader.
Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors, myths and tales without which the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best, most influential and most fascinating works into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction and a Glossary of Terms.
Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard work, the honest and the faithful are valued by the treasured tales from Hans Christian Andersen, such as 'The Little Match Girl', and less well known stories such as 'Katie Woodencloak' (a Norwegian Version of Cinderella) by Asbjørnsen & Moe are some of the heartwarming pieces in this new selection for the modern reader.
Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors, myths and tales without which the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best, most influential and most fascinating works into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction and a Glossary of Terms.
416 pages, Hardcover
Published November 22, 2022
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Jake Jackson
173 books172 followersSF and dark fantasy author but also a writer/creator of practical music books - Beginner's Guide to Reading Music, Guitar Chords, Piano Chords, Songwriter’s Rhyming Dictionary and How to Play Guitar. Other publications include Advanced Guitar Chords, Advanced Piano Chords, Chords for Kids, How to Play the Electric Guitar, Piano & Keyboard Chords, Scales and Modes and Play Flamenco. Also editor of Mythology books
Released EP Jakesongs on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, LastFM, etc and on CDBaby. Lifelong passion for fantastic worlds of any kind, from movies to fiction, art to music, posters, album and paperback book covers.
Jake Jackson is the artist name for Nick Wells, Publisher of Flame Tree Press / Flame Tree Publishing.
Released EP Jakesongs on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, LastFM, etc and on CDBaby. Lifelong passion for fantastic worlds of any kind, from movies to fiction, art to music, posters, album and paperback book covers.
Jake Jackson is the artist name for Nick Wells, Publisher of Flame Tree Press / Flame Tree Publishing.
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November 8, 2024
It’s a cool fairytale book from almost ancient times
My review has only 2 stars because I read it like a normal book and not a fairy tale before bed. I believe you can get a better experience by reading it in bed one story at a time (even the story only has 1/2 pages)
My review has only 2 stars because I read it like a normal book and not a fairy tale before bed. I believe you can get a better experience by reading it in bed one story at a time (even the story only has 1/2 pages)
July 14, 2024
La copertina dalle grafiche affascinanti è un'ottima trappola: dietro l'avvincente titolo di "Viking folk & fairy tales" si cela una semplicissima raccolta di fiabe dal nord Europa, messe per iscritto da vari autori (fra cui il famoso Andersen) che di vichingo hanno forse qualche remoto antenato. Sono fiabe che, per quanto possano risalire in tale forma a un sostrato norreno, come testimoniano figure come i Troll e i Nisse, si collocano generalmente in un immaginario paneuropeo o perlomeno pangermanico: sto parlando di classici del genere, come Cenerentola e Biancaneve. Molte di queste fiabe sono ambientate in secoli in cui dei vichinghi rimaneva soltanto il nome (La piccola fiammiferaia rappresenta chiaramente la società ottocentesca, per esempio).
Tra le fiabe, raccolte intorno a nuclei tematici, si collocano alcuni miti norreni, tratti dall'Edda di Snorri, ma sembrano essere fuori posto, quasi un contentino per il lettore attratto dalle premesse della copertina.
L'aspetto grafico risulta l'unico motivo per cui avere in libreria questo volume, che sicuramente fa la sua bella figura; peccato che, nonostante la scritta "Collector's editions", anche la cura editoriale non sia ineccepibile. Ho, infatti, trovato diversi refusi nel testo.
Tra le fiabe, raccolte intorno a nuclei tematici, si collocano alcuni miti norreni, tratti dall'Edda di Snorri, ma sembrano essere fuori posto, quasi un contentino per il lettore attratto dalle premesse della copertina.
L'aspetto grafico risulta l'unico motivo per cui avere in libreria questo volume, che sicuramente fa la sua bella figura; peccato che, nonostante la scritta "Collector's editions", anche la cura editoriale non sia ineccepibile. Ho, infatti, trovato diversi refusi nel testo.
December 27, 2025
As a true viking lover this was a bit boring. All the stories started being the same over and over. There was weird old English used sometimes. I don’t know if I can blame the author as they are just retelling the stories, but I found myself skipping a lot of them.
August 23, 2023
Some were cool. Fairy tale tropes can be so weird sometimes 😅 cool to see how some of them were the same as some Andersen fairy tales I had read recently
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