The Victorian Fairy Tale Book
A Historical, Fiction, Victorian book. This is a lovely and quirky collection of fairy tales, only one of which I had read years...
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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- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9780679732587 / 679732586
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This is a lovely and quirky collection of fairy tales, only one of which I had read years ago, The Goblin Market. A good read if you are interested in reading offbeat works of famous Victorian writers--Thackeray, Dickens, and Wilde are all featured. Robert Browning's Pied Piper of Hamlin was my favorite. If you like true(great story structure and writing, I don't mean factual, of course)fairy tales, you'll love this! 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...
