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Duffy And The Devil (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Zemach, Harve; Zemach, Margot, illustrator is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Duffy And The Devil (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) about?
<p><p><b>Duffy and the Devil</b> was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted this folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy, cliff-hanging villages the dot England's southwestern coast from Penzance to Lands End.</p> <p>The language spoken by the Christmas players was a rich mixture of local English dialect and old Cornish (similar to Welsh and Gaelic), and something of this flavor is preserved in Harve Zemach's retelling. Margot Zemach's pen and wash illustrations combine a refined sense of comedy with telling and observation of character, felicitous drawing with decorative richness, to a degree that surpasses her own past accomplishments.</p></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>``The Zemachs' re-creation of a 19th century Cornish entertainment retains all the robust, ribald qualities of the original, a plot based on Rumpelstiltskin,'' noted
Who reads Duffy And The Devil (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Zemach, Harve; Zemach, Margot, illustrator
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Published
- 1973
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374418977
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Folklore, Children'S, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.38 / 5 (34 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14