Yoruba Folk Tales - formato ePub

Un guionista de teatro pierde su trabajo, su matrimonio y su único hijo. Viaja a un pueblo rural en busca de un lugar tranquilo para reorganizar su vida. Aquí vuelve a encontrarse con un legendario bailarín...

Herkes Norman'dan kurtulmaya çal???yor fakat O, hepsinden zeki ve her seferinde geri gelmeyi ba?ar?yor.Norman korkunç bir çocuk, tuhaf davran??lar?yla ünlü. Zavall? anne-baba, ondan kurtulmaya ve onu...

Uno sceneggiatore teatrale divorziato si reca in una città rurale in cerca di un posto tranquillo per riorganizzare la sua vita confusa. Qui incontra di nuovo un leggendario ballerino di Bata e la riunione...

The story of a boy so terrible that even animals are afraid of him. Everyone in town is afraid of Ajala . In shame his mother took him inside a forest and there abandoned Ajala. He makes friends with...

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The town of Tambolo is a place where stories come alive - storues for education and entertainment. This is a collection of eleven fictional short stories for children set in a place from Tambolo Town....

The imagery in Yoruba folk tales can be quite striking and are often astonishing .The tales live and breathe and sometimes walk into each other and around at night when all have gone to sleep. But in...

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Two Dogs - a play about two dogs, a mongrel and a prize bulldog, who become neighbours. The pampered bulldog is not impressed by nor does it offer sympathy for the life of the mongrel who suffers constant...

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An unfortunate dog named Lucky and an arrogant prize bulldog, become neighbors. The pampered bulldog is not impressed by and neither does it offer sympathy to the starving mongrel. By a chance encounter...

In this children's book a gullible Leopard makes friends with a wily animal called the Galogalo, and suffers great misfortunes in consequence.Leopard makes friends with a crafty and evil animal called...

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Philip Haldane and his sister lived in a little red-roofed house in a little redroofed town. They had a little garden and a little balcony, and a little stable with a little pony in it—and a little cart...

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Three middle-class sixth-form girls leave their independent boarding school in the summer of 1918. They are told by their headmistress that their prospects of marriage have been reduced following the...

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