Fairy Tales & Folklore

Aino Folk-Tales

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  • 1888 first published
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Basil Hall Chamberlain's Aino Folk-Tales (1888) is a folklore and fairy tales novel.

A free LibriVox audiobook (2 h 21 min) is available.

About Aino Folk-Tales

Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of whom still live in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Ranging over all of the usual themes of folklore, from creation to marriage to war, these stories have a pungent, ribald frankness concerning all aspects of human life that offended their scholarly collector Basil Hall Chamberlain (his apologies to the reader are themselves entertaining) but that make them fresh, provocative, and amusing to the twenty-first century reader. Attention to the Ainu is especially timely because of the revival in Japan of Ainu activism on behalf of indigenous rights, pride, and culture, but are well worth reading for their purely entertainment value.
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Who wrote Aino Folk-Tales?

Aino Folk-Tales was written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and first published in 1888.

What genre is Aino Folk-Tales?

It is usually shelved as Fairy Tales & Folklore.

Is there a free audiobook of Aino Folk-Tales?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 2 h 21 min.

What books are similar to Aino Folk-Tales?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dracula, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass.

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