The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile

The Tale of Tales

Giambattista Basile

475 pages first pub 1636 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy short stories dark funny medium-paced
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Before the Brothers Grimm, before Charles Perrault, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was Giambattista Basile, a seventeenth-century poet from Naples, Italy, whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. T...

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