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Hardcover A Bouquet: Of Czech Folktales Book

ISBN: 8086264416

ISBN13: 9788086264417

A Bouquet: Of Czech Folktales

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Erben compiled and wrote A Bouquet based on his studies of Slavic folklore. First published in 1853, it is dotted with murder and mayhem: graves opening and the dead walking the earth, the animate becoming the inanimate and vice versa, ogres and monsters of lake and wood, human transformations reminiscent of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Written as ballads, Marcela Sulak's new translation perfectly captures their cadence and rhythm in an English that is fresh...

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