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  1. The giant, O'Brien
    a novel
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Holt, New York

    A sick Irish giant in 18th century London is offered money by an anatomist if he will bequeath his body. The giant refuses, he wants to enter heaven whole, but the anatomist gets the body anyway. A parable on man of myth versus man of science. By the... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    A sick Irish giant in 18th century London is offered money by an anatomist if he will bequeath his body. The giant refuses, he wants to enter heaven whole, but the anatomist gets the body anyway. A parable on man of myth versus man of science. By the author of Eight Months on Ghazzah Street.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0805044280
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: A Marion Wood book
    Subjects: Giants; Irish; Pathology
    Scope: X, 192 S.
  2. Jack and the beanstalk
    = Juan y los frijoles mágicos
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Chronicle Books, San Francisco

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English; Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0811818438
    Series: A bilingual book!
    Subjects: Fairy tales; Folklore; Giants; Spanish language materials
    Scope: [12] Bl, zahlr. Ill, 21 cm
    Notes:

    Originally published in Spanish by La Galera under the title "Los guisantes maravillosos"--page facing t.p

    A retelling of the classic story of the boy who climbs a beanstalk and outwits a giant

    Span. Ausg. früher u.d.T.: Los guisantes maravillosos

  3. Jack and the beanstalk
    = Juan y los frijoles mágicos
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Chronicle Books, San Francisco

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    53 MA 15202
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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English; Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0811818438
    Series: A bilingual book!
    Subjects: Fairy tales; Folklore; Giants; Spanish language materials
    Scope: [12] Bl, zahlr. Ill, 21 cm
    Notes:

    Originally published in Spanish by La Galera under the title "Los guisantes maravillosos"--page facing t.p

    A retelling of the classic story of the boy who climbs a beanstalk and outwits a giant

    Span. Ausg. früher u.d.T.: Los guisantes maravillosos