Workers' Tales : : Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain /

Workers' Tales : : Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain / / ed. by Michael Rosen.

A collection of political tales-first published in British workers' magazines-selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms appeared frequently in socialist-leaning Br...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Tom,
Anderson, W.,
Asch, Schalom,
Baxter, Dan,
Bellingham, H.,
Clarke, C. Allen,
Everard, C. L.,
Grayson, Victor,
Grey, A. L.,
Gros, Joseph,
Hannigan, D. F.,
Hardie, Keir,
Hartley, Edward,
Maidstone, Glanville,
Martyn, Caroline E. Derecourt,
Meyer, Edward,
Morris, William,
Robinson, T.,
Starr, Frank,
Suthers, R. B.,
Whittaker, E.,
Willson, Harford,
Winchevsky, M.,
HerausgeberIn:
Rosen, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Oddly Modern Fairy Tales ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • TALES
  • An Old Fable Retold
  • Fables for the Times-I
  • Fables for the Times-II
  • Aristos and Demos
  • A Dream of Queer Fishes (A Modern Prose Idyll)
  • Chips
  • Nobody's Business
  • The History of a Giant
  • The Man without a Heart
  • A Terrible Crime
  • Tom Hickathrift
  • Jack Clearhead
  • The Four Friends
  • The Princesses
  • The New Shilling
  • The Harebell's Sermon
  • Little Red Riding Hood
  • A Mystery
  • Odin and his One Eye
  • The Elves and Fairies
  • A Monkey Story
  • Elfhome (Charlie's Garden)
  • A Fairy Tale for Tired Socialists
  • The Golden Egg
  • When Death Crossed the Threshold
  • The Doll Shop
  • The Scarlet Shoes. (The Story of a Serio-comic Walking Tour and its Tragic End.)
  • He, She, and It
  • An Idyll of the Dover Road. A True Story
  • His Sister. A Little Spangle of Real Life
  • "Happy Valley." A Fairy Tale
  • The Peasants and the Parasites. A Fable
  • The Eternal Feminine
  • The Myopians' Muddle
  • A Martian's Visit to Earth. Being a Literal Translation into English of the Preface to an Account by a Martian of his Visit to England
  • Nightmare Bridge
  • The Fool and the Wise Man
  • The May-Day Festival in the Year 1970
  • Mary Davis; or the Fate of a Proletarian Family. A Lesson Given to the Glasgow S.L.P. Socialist Sunday School
  • The Lost Vision. A Spring Fantasy
  • The Aerial Armada. What Took Place in A.D. 2000
  • Mr. Prowser-Wowser
  • Behind the Wall
  • Alice in Sunderland. A Baffling Mystery
  • It Can't Be Done! A History of Impossibilities
  • Notes
  • References
  • Notes on Authors
  • Notes on Journals

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