English Fairy Tales [Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series]
by Jacobs, Joseph
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0679428097
- ISBN 13
- 9780679428091
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From the book:Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist. A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. I am hoping that the present volume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, to me, care of Mr. Nutt. The only reason, I imagine, why such tales have not hitherto been brought to light, is the lamentable gap between the governing and recording classes and the dumb working classes of this country - dumb to others but eloquent among themselves. It would be no unpatriotic task to help to bridge over this gulf, by giving a common fund of nursery literature to all classes of the English people, and, in any case, it can do no harm to add to the innocent gaiety of the nation.
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- Saucony Book Shop (US)
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- 064848
- Title
- English Fairy Tales [Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series]
- Author
- Jacobs, Joseph
- Illustrator
- John Batten
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0679428097
- ISBN 13
- 9780679428091
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's;
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