The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
β Scribed by Hearn, Michael Patrick (editor)
- Book ID
- 108647313
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307814159
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β¦ Synopsis
From Robert Brownings Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackerays Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahmes Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barries 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 Landis an expression of the joy of living.Accompanied by the illustrations from the original editions of these worksby such celebrated Victorian artists as Dante, Gabriel Rossetti, Maxfield Parrish, and Arthur Rackhamthis collection will delight readers both young and old..
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