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Chinese Fairy Tales
Colorful illustrations accompany the classic Chinese fairy tales in this tall, thin book.
- GenresFairy Tales
68 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1960
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Marie Ponsot
40 books16 followersMarie Ponsot was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.
After graduating from St. Joseph's College for Women in Brooklyn, Ponsot earned her master's degree in seventeenth-century literature from Columbia University. After the Second World War, she journeyed to Paris, where she met and married Claude Ponsot, a painter and student of Fernand Léger. The couple lived in Paris for three years, during which time they had a daughter. Later, Ponsot and her husband relocated to the United States. The couple had six sons before divorcing.
Upon returning from France, Ponsot worked as a freelance writer of radio and television scripts. She also translated 69 children's books from the French, including The Fables of La Fontaine.
She co-authored with Rosemary Deen two books about the fundamentals of writing, Beat Not the Poor Desk and Common Sense.
Ponsot taught a poetry thesis class, as well as writing classes, at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. She has also taught at the YMCA, Beijing United University, New York University, and Columbia University, and she served as an English professor at Queens College in New York, from which she retired in 1991.
Ponsot lived in New York City.
Ponsot was the author of several collections of poetry, including The Bird Catcher (1998), a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Springing: New and Selected Poems (2002), which was named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review.
Among her awards are a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, The Robert Frost Poetry Award, the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association, the 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the 2015 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
After graduating from St. Joseph's College for Women in Brooklyn, Ponsot earned her master's degree in seventeenth-century literature from Columbia University. After the Second World War, she journeyed to Paris, where she met and married Claude Ponsot, a painter and student of Fernand Léger. The couple lived in Paris for three years, during which time they had a daughter. Later, Ponsot and her husband relocated to the United States. The couple had six sons before divorcing.
Upon returning from France, Ponsot worked as a freelance writer of radio and television scripts. She also translated 69 children's books from the French, including The Fables of La Fontaine.
She co-authored with Rosemary Deen two books about the fundamentals of writing, Beat Not the Poor Desk and Common Sense.
Ponsot taught a poetry thesis class, as well as writing classes, at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. She has also taught at the YMCA, Beijing United University, New York University, and Columbia University, and she served as an English professor at Queens College in New York, from which she retired in 1991.
Ponsot lived in New York City.
Ponsot was the author of several collections of poetry, including The Bird Catcher (1998), a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Springing: New and Selected Poems (2002), which was named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review.
Among her awards are a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, The Robert Frost Poetry Award, the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association, the 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the 2015 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
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April 6, 2017
This is another book that has been sitting on my bookshelf for longer than I've actually been alive. There are seven stories, but I'll just talk about my favorite, The Queen of Tung Ting Lake.
A poor secretary, Chen, saves a seal that had been shot by his employer while traveling across Tung Ting Lake. A few months later, Chen is returning across the lake to go home, but his ship is lost in a storm and he is the only survivor. But he finds himself in a magical garden, instead of the shores he had left. There he sees the Princess of the lake and falls in love, hastily writing her poetry on a scarf she had dropped. But the Queen is angered by his ruining of the scarf and he is sentenced to death. . . that is until he is recognized as being the savior of the Queen from the time she was shot on the surface of the water. Chen and the Princess marry, but it is learned that despite his happiness, his family and friends all live on believing him dead at the bottom of the lake.
This one captured my imagination because Chen does not find an earthly happiness, but rather a magical one. Could it be that he really died, but his spirit found the Queen's garden? It has a Spirited Away feeling.
A poor secretary, Chen, saves a seal that had been shot by his employer while traveling across Tung Ting Lake. A few months later, Chen is returning across the lake to go home, but his ship is lost in a storm and he is the only survivor. But he finds himself in a magical garden, instead of the shores he had left. There he sees the Princess of the lake and falls in love, hastily writing her poetry on a scarf she had dropped. But the Queen is angered by his ruining of the scarf and he is sentenced to death. . . that is until he is recognized as being the savior of the Queen from the time she was shot on the surface of the water. Chen and the Princess marry, but it is learned that despite his happiness, his family and friends all live on believing him dead at the bottom of the lake.
This one captured my imagination because Chen does not find an earthly happiness, but rather a magical one. Could it be that he really died, but his spirit found the Queen's garden? It has a Spirited Away feeling.
September 13, 2024
Излязлата преди три години антология “Китайски приказки” с илюстрации от Либико Марайа изненадващо се превърна в любима на порасналите фенове в Цитаделата и спечели наградата за Книга на годината от клуба, а подир това отличие Марин Канушев от издателство “Миранда” обеща нова колекция. Тя най-сетне пристигна на български език, като този път художник е не по-малко умелия Серджо Ридзато, а сборникът с неговите картини е още по-дебел и интересен.
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June 7, 2025
Fairy tales are fairy tales. They have their own logic and morality. But one of these protagonists is rewarded for problematic behavior.
I love the cover, but while the interior illustrations are fine - I don't love them. This is still a treasured childhood book. I have no intention of relinquishing it.
I love the cover, but while the interior illustrations are fine - I don't love them. This is still a treasured childhood book. I have no intention of relinquishing it.
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