Popular European Folklore Books
Find folklore books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (39)
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Der blinde Masseur : Roman by Catalin Dorian Florescu DE
RomaniaDescription:
a philosophical book about a man returning from Switzerland to his home country Romania. A book about lies, trust, love and friendship set in the early 2000s.
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El Prncipe Feliz y otros cuentos by Oscar Wilde ES
IrelandDescription:
El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos, es una colección de cuentos escrita en 1888 por Oscar Wilde. Contiene cinco cuentos, de los cuales algunos, son conocidos mundialmente como. El gigante egoísta, El ruiseñor y la rosa La historia trata de un joven estudiante enamorado de una chica. Necesitaba una rosa roja para impresionarla y que así ella fuera al baile con él. Sólo tenía rosas blancas en su jardín, entonces se puso a llorar. Un ruiseñor le vio y este, ilusionado con la idea de que el joven pueda encontrar el amor verdadero, toma la decisión de sacrificar su vida para teñir una rosa roja con ... continue
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Fat-Frumos din lacrima by Mihai Eminescu RO
Description:
Mihai Eminescu is considered Romania's greatest poet. The Tear-Drop Prince is his only children's story and is popular throughout Romania. This is the tale of the Prince searching for true love, adventure and honour. Eminescu was born in 1850 and died in 1889. As a Romantic poet, his language reflects the sweetness in his language. The cover is illustrated by Emil Childescu and translated into English by A.I. Marin in 2011.
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Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova EN
BulgariaDescription:
The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured new voice in genre fiction As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice taming rusalkas, fighting kikimoras, and brewing lycanthrope repellent. There’s only one monster Kosara can’t defeat: her ex the Zmey, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She’s defied him one too many times, and now he’s hunting her. Betrayed to him by someone close to her, Kosara’s only hope is to trade her shadow—the source of her powers—for illegal passage across the Wall to Belograd, where monste... continue
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Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset EN
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The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter A Penguin Classic More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar’s Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country’s history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelli... continue
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà EN
SpainDescription:
Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.
As day turns to night, four hundred years’ worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasu... continue
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