by Leon Garfield · Editorial Destino · ISBN 9788423325870
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«Històries de Shakespeare» is a collection of stories by Leon Garfield published by Editorial Destino, with 150 pages in Catalan.
The book brings together stories drawn from William Shakespeare's plays and adapts them for a young readership. Leon Garfield recounts famous episodes and portrays celebrated characters from the playwright in simple language, preserving the emotion of the original plots and helping readers approach his theater for the first time.
The book was published in 1995.
Recommended for young readers who want to discover Shakespeare's theater with adapted language.
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British author. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. His retellings of Shakespeare for young readers were published as Shakespeare Stories. He wrote an ending for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the death of Charles Dickens. Garfield won the inaugural Guardian Prize for Devil-in-the-Fog and the Carnegie Medal for The God Beneath the Sea, a retelling of Greek mythology cowritten with Edward Blishen..
