The Science Of Fairy Tales, An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology
By Sidney Hartland
Length13h 5m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "The art of story-telling has been cultivated in all ages and among all nations of which we have any record; it is the outcome of an instinct implanted universally in the human mind. By means of a story the savage philosopher accounts for his own existence and that of all the phenomena which surround him. With a story the mothers of the wildest tribes awe their little ones into silence, or rouse them into delight. And the weary hunters beguile the long silence of a desert night with the mirth and wonders of a tale. The imagination is not less fruitful in the higher races; and, passing through forms sometimes more, sometimes less, serious, the art of story-telling unites with the kindred arts of dance and song to form the epic or the drama, or develops under the complex influences of modern life into the prose romance and the novel. These in their various ways are its ultimate expression; and the loftiest genius has found no fitter vehicle to convey its lessons of truth and beauty."
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GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length13 hrs 5 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
8CHAPTER VI.
2CONTENTS.
9CHAPTER VII.
3CHAPTER I.
10CHAPTER VIII.
4CHAPTER II.
11CHAPTER IX.
5CHAPTER III.
12CHAPTER X.
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6CHAPTER IV.
13CHAPTER XI.
7CHAPTER V.
14CHAPTER XII.
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