This is the second book in the Fireside series covering the English story-telling tradition. Listening to a story is like going on a journey. Only you can see the pictures in your mind. Only you can conjure the demons and the dragons and the heroes with such vivacity. As we travel through our story landscapes we are marked with wisdom and imagination. These are just some of the ingredients that make the wonder of storytelling.
Once again, I hope that you are as delighted travelling on this particular journey as I have been in putting this and the first volume together.
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A POTTLE O’ BRAINS
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT
CAPORUSHES
CHILDE ROWLAND
FAIRY OINTMENT
GOOD LUCK IS BETTER THAN GOLD
HABETROT AND SCANTLIE MAB
HELWISE; OR THE ILL-FATED LOVERS
HEREAFTERTHIS
HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE
JACK HANNAFORD
JOHNNY GLOKE
JOHNNY-CAKE
KIND WILLIAM AND THE WATER SPRITE
KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY
LAME MOLLY
LAZY JACK
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD
MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT
MR AND MRS VINEGAR
MY OWN SELF
OGIER THE DANE
PRINCESS OF CANTERBURY
ROBIN HOOD
SCRAPEFOOT
SIR BEVIS THE STRONG
ST GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND
STUPID’S CRIES
TATTERCOATS
THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK
THE BARN ELVES
THE BOGEY-BEAST
THE BURIED MOON
THE CAULD LAD OF HILTON
THE COBBLER AND THE GHOSTS
THE DUERGAR
THE FAIRY CHILDREN
THE FIRST WIFE’S WEDDING RING
THE GOLDEN BALL
THE HEDLEY KOW
THE HOBYAHS
THE KING OF ENGLAND AND HIS THREE SONS
THE LAMBTON WORM
THE LITTLE DARNER
THE MAGIC JAR
THE MAGICIAN’S GIFT
THE MARRIAGE OF SIR GAWAYNE
THE NECK
THE OGRE COURTING
THE SPECTRE COACH
THE STORY OF CONSTANTINE AND ELENE
THE TALE OF GAMELYN
THE THREE COWS
THE THREE FOOLS
THE THREE WISHES
THE TULIP FAIRIES
THE WELL OF THE WORLD’S END
THE WIDOWS AND THE STRANGERS
THREE FEATHERS
UNA AND THE LION
YALLERY BROWN
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Giới thiệu về tác giả
I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.
I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.
A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.
I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.
Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby ‘Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.
I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President – Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.
You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
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