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Title: Nix Nought Nothing

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Title: Nix Nought Nothing Title Record # 2440412
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Date: 1890-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: SOURCE: From a Scotch tale, 'Nicht Nought Nothing', collected by Mr Andrew Lang in Morayshire, published by him first in Revue Celtique, t. iii; then in his Custom and Myth, p. 89; and again in Folk-Lore, September 1890. Joseph Jacobs: "I have changed the name so as to retain the équivoque of the giant's reply to the king. I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, mainly from the Pentamerone version, and expanded the conclusion, which is very curtailed and confused in the original."
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
English Fairy Tales 1890-10-00 Joseph Jacobs David Nutt     xiv+
253
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Folk Tales of All Nations 1931-00-00 ed. F. H. Lee George G. Harrap & Co.     xix+
947
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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