The European Folktale: Form and Nature

"Niles' excellent translation should bring Luthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." — Library Journal

Luthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.

• Author
• Max Lüthi, John D. Niles

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 200

• Publisher
• Indiana University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780253203939

• Genres
• folklore, academic, research

• Release date
• 1986