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Clive Gilson 
Tales From The Land Of Rabbits 

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John A. Crow explains it perfectly in Spain, The Root and the Flower, University of California Press, 1985:

Spain was first called Iberia, a name given to it by its Iberian inhabitants (from North Africa). The name was supposedly based on the Iberian word for river, Iber. They reached Spain around 6000 BCE. When the Greeks arrived on Spanish soil around 600 BCE. they referred to the peninsula as Hesperia, meaning ‘land of the setting sun.’ When the Carthaginians came around 300 BCE. they called the country Ispania (from Sphan, ‘rabbit’), which means ‘land of the rabbits.’ The Romans arrived a century later and adopted the Carthaginian name of the country, calling it Hispania. Later, this became the present day Spanish name for the country, España. Thus, because of the Romans and their language, the rabbits won over the sunset and over the river.

This collection contains stories either written by or collected by Rachel Harriette Busk, Charles Sellers, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Andrew Lang and by José Muñoz Escámez. Translations from Becquer are by Cornelia Francis Bates and Katherine Lee Bates.

As ever it’s been a delight to work on these stories, many of which I had not read before working through some of these original collections. There is a real flavour of the peninsular in these stories, reflecting as they do Spain and Portugal’s long history of thought, religion and conflict. I hope you enjoy these stories.

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PREFACE
THE INGENIOUS STUDENT
MASTER PÉREZ THE ORGANIST
CARLO MAGNO AND THE GIANT
THE CITY OF FORTUNE
THE BIRD OF TRUTH
TURIAN AND FLORETA
CLEVER MARIA
WITHERED LEAVES
THE GARDEN OF HEALTH
JUANITA THE BALD, OR, A DAUGHTER’S LOVE
THE UGLY PRINCESS
STARVING JOHN THE DOCTOR
THE CAPTAIN’S EXPLOIT
THE WOLF-CHILD
THE BALLAD-MAKER AND THE BOOT-MAKER
THE WHITE CAT OF ECIJA
DON SUERO THE PROUD
EL CONDE FERNAN GONZALEZ
THE COBBLER OF BURGOS
HORMESINDA
THE SPIRITS’ MOUNTAIN
ISSY-BEN-ARAN
THE WATCHFUL SERVANT
MÓSTAFA ALVILÁ
THE EMIR IN SEARCH OF AN EYE
SILVER BELLS
THE THREE QUESTIONS
THE PROMISE
THE BLACK CHARGER OF HERNANDO
KING ROBIN
THE WHITE DOE
THE HERMIT AND THE FIG-TREE
THE JUDGMENT OF THE FLOWERS
THE SEVEN PIGEONS
THE RAY OF MOONSHINE
ELVIRA, THE SAINTED PRINCESS
THE EMERALD EYES
THE MAN WITH THE TWO FACES
THE ENCHANTED MULE
THE DEVIL’S TOURNAMENT
TROMPETILLA AND TROMPETIN
THE DRAWING SCHOOL
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE EDITOR

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I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household — Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.

I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.

A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.

I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.

Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby ‘Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.

I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President — Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.

You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 362 ● ISBN 9781913500597 ● Размер файла 0.3 MB ● редактор Clive Gilson ● издатель Clive Gilson ● опубликованный 2019 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 7314542 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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