- Publication: William Mayne's Book of GiantsPublication Record # 1002764
- Editor: William Mayne
- Date: 1972-06-00
- ISBN: 0-525-42810-0 [978-0-525-42810-7]
- Publisher: Dutton
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Price: $4.95?$: US dollar
- Pages: viii+215
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Cover: William Mayne's Book of Giants by Raymond Briggs
- Webpages: archive.org
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Notes: Info from Archive.org copy. "THIRD PRINTING JUNE 1972" on copyright page.
Anthology Title:
William Mayne's Book of Giants • juvenile • (1969) • anthology by William Mayne (variant of The Hamish Hamilton Book of Giants 1968)
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- William Mayne's Book of Giants • (1968) • interior artwork by Raymond Briggs
- 1 • The Three Golden Apples • (1851) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 27 • The Giant Who Stole a River • (1968) • short story by Doris Rust
- 35 • How Loki Outwitted a Giant • (1968) • short story by Barbara Leonie Picard
- 42 • Tavadan and the Fire Giant • (1968) • short story by William Mayne [as by Charles Molin]
- 55 • Angus • (1968) • short story by Charlotte Hough
- 63 • The Gouty Giant • (1968) • short story by D. M. G. Howell
- 71 • He Who Laughs Last • (1968) • short story by Janet McNeill
- 83 • Jack the Giant Killer • (1943) • short story by Joseph Jacobs (variant of Jack the Giant-Killer 1890)
- 98 • Jack and the Beanstalk • (1890) • short story by Joseph Jacobs
- 108 • The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 36] • (1968) • short story by Peter Asbjørnsen?Peter AsbjoernsenandJørgen Moe?Jorgen Moe(trans. of Om Risen, som ikke havde noger Hjerte paa sig 1843) [as byPeter C. Asbjørnsen?Peter C. Asbjornsenand Jorgen E. Moe]
- 119 • The Giant of the Brown Beechwood • (1968) • short story by Seumas MacManus (variant of The Giant of the Brown Beech Wood 1951)
- 138 • The Giants of Towednack • (1968) • short story by Amabel Williams-Ellis
- 148 • Clever Oonagh • (1968) • short story by Amabel Williams-Ellis
- 161 • The Ogre Courting • juvenile • (1968) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing [as by Juliana H. Ewing]
- 170 • A Moon of Gobbags • (1968) • short story by Dora M. Broome [as by Dora Broome]
- 177 • A Voyage to Brobdingnag • (1968) • short fiction by Jonathan Swift
- 195 • The Giant Bones • (1968) • short story by Sorche Nic Leodhas [as by Sorche N. Leodhas]
- 204 • The Selfish Giant • (1888) • short story by Oscar Wilde
- 211 • The Giant and the Mite • (1955) • short story by Eleanor Farjeon
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