The Victorian Fairy Tale Book
A Folklore, Fiction, Historical book. A rather excellent compilation of Victorian Era Fairy Tales by the likes of Dickens, Barrie, Yeats, Wilde, Craik, and...
From Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahame’s Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one–in the words of Laurence Houseman, author of the classic Rocking-Horse Land– “is an expression of the joy of living.”Accompanied by the illustrations from the original editions of these works–by such celebrated Victorian artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Maxfield Parrish, and Arthur Rackham–this collection will delight readers both young and old.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9780679732587 / 679732586
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This was an interesting collection, featuring several stories I had never previously encountered. I found The Brown Owl to be of particular interest. It featured a complex, empowered heroine and surprising diversity, both of which I was pleased to see in a Victorian text. Altogether, an interesting read. I certainly want to continue... A rather excellent compilation of Victorian Era Fairy Tales by the likes of Dickens, Barrie, Yeats, Wilde, Craik, and Barrie, to name but a few of the wonderful authors included in this collection. Still reading this, but so far, the stories are great. A great addition to my fairy tale collection. :) A plus is that they're enjoyable for both kids and adults.
