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A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Chapbooks were usually produced cheaply, illustrated with crude woodcuts a
Chapbook (c. 1800) of Jack the Giant Killer
The frontispiece of a late 18th-century chapbook edition of Voltaire's The Extraordinary Tragical Fate of Calas, depicting Jean Calas being broken on the wheel
A modern chapbook
Jack the Giant Killer
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"Jack the Giant Killer" is a Cornish fairy tale and legend about a man who slays a number of bad giants during King Arthur's reign. The tale is characterised by violence, gore and blood-letting. Giant
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…Chapbook (c. 1800) of Jack the Giant Killer A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Chapbooks were usually…
St Michael's Mount – home of the Giant
Thor and Skrymir
The title page from A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744) promises the reader two letters from Jack the Giant Killer.