The Tale of Tales(English, Paperback, Basile Giambattista)

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The Tale of Tales(English, Paperback, Basile Giambattista) is written by Basile Giambattista and published by Penguin Books Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0143129147 (ISBN 10) and 9780143129141 (ISBN 13).

Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. The Tale of Tales opens with Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. To expose this impostor and win back her rightful husband, Zosa contrives a storytelling extravaganza: fifty fairy tales to be told by ten sharp-tongued women (including Zoza in disguise) over five days. Funny and scary, romantic and gruesome, and featuring kings and queens, dragons and seduction, The Tale of Tales is a fairy-tale treasure that prefigures Game of Thrones and other touchstones of worldwide fantasy literature