Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales is a collection of Turkish fairy tales compiled by Dr. Ignac Kunos, a Hungarian-born linguist who, having an interest in the Turkish dialect and folk tradition, collected several volumes of oral fairy tales, not through reading and study, but by travelling around the Turkish country and listening to storytellers. In this elaborately produced volume, beautifully illustrated by Willy Pogany, Kunos describes the stories as being closer to the fairy tales of European tradition than those in Arabian Nights, seeking to dissuade his readers of any notion of...
Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales is a collection of Turkish fairy tales compiled by Dr. Ignac Kunos, a Hungarian-born linguist who, having an int...