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4.6/5 AbeBooks Publication date 1970 (UK)
1971 (US) Pages 192 pp Illustrator William Stobbs | 4.5/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (hardcover) Originally published 1971 Genre Fairy tale Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publishers Methuen Publishing (UK), E. P. Dutton (US) Similar Folk and Fairy Tales, Fox Tales, A Choice of Magic, A Book of Mermaids, Peter and the Piskies: Cornish F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gianni and the Ogre is a 1971 anthology of 18 fairy tales 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 1970, by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
According to the dust jacket, all of the tales originated in the Mediterranean and the author's tales create "a lively fantasy world of kings and princesses, witches and dwarfs, fairies and fools."
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