- Ritual magic and grimoires
- Legendary beings and transformations
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers
a legend of Stiria
by John Ruskin, Richard Doyle, William Randolph Hearst, Riviere & Son. bnd CU-BANC, Elder Smith & Vizetelly Bros. & Co. bkp CU-BANC
- First published:
- 19th century
- Languages: Chinese, English, Welsh
- Content type: FictionJuvenilePrimary source
Through kindness a boy regains for himself the treasure his cruel older brothers lost.
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, and Ritual magic and grimoires.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.
- “Magic”· via Open Library
- “Magic”· in subject
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.
- “Fairies”· via Open Library
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “Legends”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “legend” in the subtitle, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).
- “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
- “Tales”· via Internet Archive
- “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
- “Folklore”· via Open Library
- “Legends”· via Open Library
- “Tales”· via Open Library
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
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Editions
Open Library reports 235 editions; 2 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
a legend of Styria Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan | 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z | London : Smith, Elder, & Co. | English | — | Public digitized item | |
The King of the Golden River | 1946 | The World Publishing Company | English | — | Public |
Subjects
- History
- Folklore
- Juvenile fiction
- Legends
- Fairy tales
- Magic
- Juvenile literature
- Conduct of life
- Children's fiction
- Children
- Science fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Texts
- Fiction, general
- Readers
- Brothers and sisters
- Families
- Boys
- Children's literature
- Brothers
- contes de fées
- Kindness
- Brothers and sisters, fiction
- Siblings, fiction
- Generosity
- Avarice
- Kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction
- Shorthand
- Children: Grades 4-6
- Rivers
- Benn Pitman
- Romance Ingles
Identifiers & provenance
How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.
Identifiers
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- OCLC
- Open Library work
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- Open LibraryOL88599W (opens in a new tab)
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Cataloging notes
- Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
- Digitization sponsor: MSN
- Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
- Open Library reports 235 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Scanner: rich3
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL88599W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
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