František Hrnčíř a svět jeho pohádek pro děti a mládež
František Hrnčíř and His Fairy Tales for Children and Young Adults

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the fairy tales of František Hrnčíř (1860–1928), together with a sketch of the life of this half-forgotten writer of literature for children and young adults. he author analyses the form and content of Hrnčíř’s inventive fairy tales, taking into account their artistic, educational, and social aspects. It is accompanied by photographs and samples of fairy tales that, although little known now, were in their day, in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, highly popular. Most were published by Hrnčíř in the town of Nymburk, central Bohemia, at his own expense.

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