| Author: | Mabel Quiller-Couch | ISBN: | 9781633554214 |
| Publisher: | Start Classics | Publication: | June 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Start Classics | Language: | English |
| Author: | Mabel Quiller-Couch |
| ISBN: | 9781633554214 |
| Publisher: | Start Classics |
| Publication: | June 20, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Start Classics |
| Language: | English |
With a vivid recollection of the keen enjoyment I myself found in the strange and wonderful Romances and Legends of Old Cornwall, now so rapidly being forgotten; with a remembrance too of the numerous long and involved paragraphs—even pages—that I skipped, as being prosy or unintelligible, written as they were in a dialect often untranslatable even by a Cornish child, I have here tried to present a few of these tales in simpler form, to suit not only Cornish children, but those of all parts.
With a vivid recollection of the keen enjoyment I myself found in the strange and wonderful Romances and Legends of Old Cornwall, now so rapidly being forgotten; with a remembrance too of the numerous long and involved paragraphs—even pages—that I skipped, as being prosy or unintelligible, written as they were in a dialect often untranslatable even by a Cornish child, I have here tried to present a few of these tales in simpler form, to suit not only Cornish children, but those of all parts.
