English Fairy Tales

Informationen zum Autor Born in Australia in 1854, Joseph Jacobs spent most of his adult life in England where he became, with Andrew Lang, a prominent member of the English Folk Lore Society founded in 1878. He spent ten years collecting from storytellers or printed sources the fairy tales that were first published in two volumes in 1890 and 1894 and now appear here in one Everyman’s Library volume. Jacobs was a cheerful man, with a down-to-earth attitude towards fairy tales, which he regarded as “essentially colloquial” rather than romantic. Though his approach to collecting and recording material was scholarly, his telling of the tales was deliberately directed at young listeners, and he tried them out on his own three children. He died in 1916. Klappentext A collection of more than eighty traditional stories that recount the adventures of giants! witches! princes! princesses! and animals. Zusammenfassung A collection of 87 classic English fairy tales! with black-and-white illustrations throughout by John Batten.

Product details

• Authors: John Batten, John Dickson (Ill) Batten, Joseph Jacobs
• Assisted by: John Batten (Illustration), Joseph Jacobs (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman s Library PRH USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.1993
• EAN: 9780679428091
• ISBN: 978-0-679-42809-1
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 212 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Everyman's library; Everyman's Library Children's; Everyman's library; Children's Classics Series; Everyman's library; Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series; Children's Classics Series; Everyman's Library Children's
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs > Fairytales and sagas; Fiction > Narrative literature