Books with author Thomas Frederick Crane

Friendship, trust, and loyalty were essential in the journey Big T embarked upon in 1970, and he knew that the decisions he would make could cost him and his partners their very lives! Hard work, honor, and a little bit of luck were essential in his quest for the high life, but he found himself in the depths of hell five different times, locked in a prison cell with nothing but his passion for success in an unforgiving world. Big T kept his word, however, and fought for what he believed in, despite having to start over again each time he got out of prison to pursue the American dream.

A young man decides to chase his dream after high school instead of following the path laid out by society. His vision leads to adventures that exceed his expectations. It also leads to imprisonment. After each incarceration, however, he is still determined to continue his quest for the good life.Told from an outlaw’s point of view, Busted: Wheelin’ N Dealin’ is a baby boomer’s anthem. Infused with author Thomas Frederick Mills’s own childhood experiences with music, movies, books, and TV, Busted is a story everyone in his world-changing generation can relate to.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The growing interest in the popular tales of Europe has led me to believe that a selection from those of Italy would be entertaining to the general reader, and valuable to the student of comparative folk-lore. The stories which, with but few exceptions, are here presented for the first time to the English reader, have been translated from recent Italian collections, and are given exactly as they were taken down from the mouths of the people, and it is in this sense, belonging to the people, that the word popular is used in the title of this work. I have occasionally changed the present to the past tense, and slightly condensed by the omission of tiresome repetitions ;but otherwise my versions follow the original closely, too closely perhaps in the case of the Sicilian tales, which, when recited, are very dramatic, but seem disjointed and abrupt when read. The notes are intended to supplement those of Pitre and Kohler by citing the stories published since the Fiabe, Novelle e Racconti, and the Sicilianische Marchen, and also to furnish easy reference to the parallel stories of the rest of Europe. As the notes are primarily intended for students I have simply pointed out the most convenient sources of information and those to which I have had ac Other condensations are indicated by brackets.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.

Originally published in 1885, Italian Popular Tales is a fascinating trove of fairy tales, legends, ghost stories, nursery tales, and jests, and other oral accounts that were collected, recorded, translated, and annotated by Thomas Crane, the first folklorist to bring the riches of Italian oral tradition to the English-speaking world.Collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries unearthed a wealth of stories from around the world and published them in English translations for the delight of general readers, young and old. Sadly, most of these anthologies have long been out of print. Italian Popular Tales brings back to life this key anthology of traditional tales from the golden age of folklore discovery. Crane's monumental achievement illustrates the enormous scope of his research, incomparable to other collections in the English language. In this modern edition, Crane's love for his work shines through the scholarship just as it did more than a century ago.The volume presents a virtually unaltered edition of this classic work that is enhanced by an authoritative Introduction by Jack Zipes. This insightful essay discusses the significance of the collection and its original collector; the original collector's methodology and translation practices; and the original period context.Certain to be of interest to folklorists, this classic collection is also meant to delight and amuse readers, whether a parent, storyteller, teacher, student, scholar, or just someone who enjoys original stories and authentic folk wisdom.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition, no date circa [1882]. Square 8vo. 56pp. Wonderful and profuse colour illustrations, including double frontispiece, half-title and prelims., also decorated endpapers. Very good clean tight square, cracked to upper hinge firmly held, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In Air Force blue cloth-backed pictorial boards featuring highly elaborate and attractive coloured illustrations tipped in to both, gently rubbed to corners and edges. A delightful addition to the library of reader and collector alike.