English Fairy Tales
By great turn-of-the-century folklorist with a gift for fine narration. 43 stories include "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Nix Nought Nothing," and many more. 65 illustrations.
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English Fairy Tales
By great turn-of-the-century folklorist with a gift for fine narration. 43 stories include "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Nix Nought Nothing," and many more. 65 illustrations.
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English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs

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By great turn-of-the-century folklorist with a gift for fine narration. 43 stories include "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Nix Nought Nothing," and many more. 65 illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486120164
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 03/13/2013
Series: Dover Children's Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 10 MB
Age Range: 8 - 14 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

I. TOM TIT TOTII. THE THREE SILLIESIII. THE ROSE-TREEIV. THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIGV. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNEVI. MR. VINEGARVII. NIX NOUGHT NOTHINGVIII. JACK HANNAFORDIX. BINNORIEX. MOUSE AND MOUSERXI. CAP O' RUSHESXII. TEENY-TINYXIII. JACK AND THE BEANSTALKXIV. THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGSXV. THE MASTER AND HIS PUPILXVI. TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSEXVII. JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOXXVIII. THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARSXIX. JACK THE GIANT-KILLERXX. HENNY-PENNYXXI. CHILDE ROWLANDXXII. MOLLY WHUPPIEXXIII. THE RED ETTINXXIV. THE GOLDEN ARMXXV. THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMBXXVI. MR. FOXXXVII. LAZY JACKXXVIII. JOHNNY-CAKEXXIX. EARL MAR'S DAUGHTERXXX. MR. MIACCAXXXI. WHITTINGTON AND HIS CATXXXII. THE STRANGE VISITORXXXIII. THE LAIDLY WORM OF SPINDLESTON HEUGHXXXIV. THE CAT AND THE MOUSEXXXV. THE FISH AND THE RINGXXXVI. THE MAGPIE'S NESTXXXVII. KATE CRACKERNUTSXXXVIII. THE CAULD LAD OF HILTONXXXIX. "THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK"XL. FAIRY OINTMENTXLI. THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S ENDXLII. MASTER OF ALL MASTERSXLIII. THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL NOTES AND REFERENCES
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