A Book of Ogres and Trolls
- A Book of Ogres and Trolls
infobox Book |
name = A Book of Ogres and Trolls
title_orig =
translator =
author = Ruth Manning-Sanders
cover_artist = Robin Jacques
illustrator = Robin Jacques
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fairy Tales
publisher = E. P. Dutton
release_date = 1973
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 127 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-525-26998-3
A Book of Ogres and Trolls is a 1973 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around Europe that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1972, by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Some of tales from this book are recollected in "Folk and Fairy Tales" (1978) by Manning-Sanders.
Table of contents
*Foreword
*1. The Good Ogre (Russia)
*2. Tritil, Litil, and the Birds (Ireland)
*3. The Ogre's Breath (Sicily)
*4. The Gold Knob (Iceland)
*5. The Children on the Pillar (Russia)
*6. Sigurd the King's Son (Iceland)
*7. The Girl in the Basket (Italy)
*8. Cow Bu-cola (Iceland)
*9. The Green Bird (Sicily)
*10. Jon and the Troll Wife (Iceland)
*11. The Little Tailor and the Three Dogs (Germany)
*12. The Troll's Little Daughter (Denmark)
*13. Nils in the Forest (Denmark)
ee also
*Ogre
*Troll
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