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Ladataan... The Complete Fairy Tales (1961)Tekijä: George MacDonald
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I probably could have enjoyed this more if I ever sat and read each story in one sitting, but they were a bit long for my attention span. I can't imagine any children young or older, enjoying these stories as even the Grimm and Anderson fairy tales have been Disney-fied and they can read the books that match the movie. All to say that these stories have good morals and can teach if you're patient. Mildly interesting. A few of the stories were pleasant; several were random patches of story, without any arc or plot let alone an ending (The Shadows was particularly annoying). I liked the later ones, that the author of the introduction thought were too sad and shouldn't have been written. There was actual story there, though MacDonald is really bad at endings - most of the stories more or less trail off without coming to real conclusions (not even "and they lived happily ever after"). These are pure fairy tales, not the "modern" ones that build solid characters and put them into fairy-tale situations; the characters here are more outlines than people. The Lost Princess characters have the most depth, because that's the point of the story, but they're still pretty shallow. Glad I read it, though I doubt I'll ever bother to reread. Possibly the language and era in which the tales in this book was written effected my enjoyment of this book. There were some tales in it that I did like, for example, The History of Photogen and Nycteris was quite good actually. Overall however, I found most of the tales to be preachy and in effect little more than sermons dressed up as fairy tales. This makes sense since the author, George MacDonald, was a Christian minister, but understanding in this case did not increase my enjoyment. On a positive note, the tales are very well written. The introduction also contains some very good insights by the author about writing and fairy tales in general that I found interesting. I do not dispute that this is an important and influential work, I just did not find the majority of the book to be entertaining. For those that enjoy reading the classics, don't let my review put you off. I am judging this book entirely by my enjoyment of it, not by its literary merit. I would say that it would be worth your time to give it a shot. You may find it much more rewarding than I did. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. The Complete Fairy Talesbrings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy- fairies good and wicked, and children journeying into unsettling dreamworlds or undertaking life-risking labours. But though they allude to familiar tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jack the Giant-Killer", MacDonald's stories are profoundly experimental and subversive. By questioning the concept that a childhood associated with purity, innocence, and fairy-tale "wonder" ought to be segregated from adult scepticism and disbelief, they invite adult readers to adopt the same elasticity and open-mindedness that come so naturally to a child. Enlisting paradox, play, and nonsense much like Lewis Carroll's Alice books, these fictions challenge us to question and rethink our assumptions, and offer an elusive yet meaningful alternative order to the dubious certitudes of everyday life. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The Shadows - 3.5
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Cross Purposes - 2.5
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Nanny's Dream - High 2
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The Carosyn (part 2) - 3
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