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Bluebeard : a reader's guide to the English tradition /
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like "Mr. F. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604733532 1604733535 128248575X 9781282485754 9786612485756 6612485752 |