The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

by Michael Patrick Hearn

Overview

From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The 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 is an expression of the joy of living.
 
Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old.

Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375714559
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/03/2002
Series:	Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	420
Sales rank:	495,578
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN is a scholar of children's books and their illustration. His many works include The Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, The Annotated Christmas Carol, The Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books, and Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. He lives in New York City.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION • xv
 
THE KING OF GOLDEN RIVER • 3
by John Ruskin • illustrated by Richard Doyle
 
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN • 25
by Robert Browning • illustrated by George Cruikshank
 
THE ROSE AND THE RING • 37
by William Makepeace Thackeray • illustrated by the author
 
THE MAGIC FISH-BONE • 107
by Charles Dickens • illustrated by John Gilbert
 
MELILOT • 117
by Henry Morley • illustrated by Charles H. Bennett
 
THE FAIRIES • 129
by William Allinghamd • illustrated by Arthur Hughes
 
THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE AND HIS TRAVELLING-CLOAK
by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik • illustrated by John McL. Ralston
 
GLOBLIN MARKET • 193
by Christina Rossetti • illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
THE NECKLACE OF PRINCESS FIORIMONDE • 211
by Mary De Morgan • illustrated by Walter Crane
 
THE GOLDEN KEY • 229
by George MacDonald • illustrated by Arthur Hughes
 
THE STOLEN CHILD • 252
by William Butler Yeats
 
THE SELFISH GIANT • 255
by Oscar Wilde • illustrated by Walter Crane
 
THE BROWN OWL • 261
by Ford Madox Ford • illustrated by Ford Madox Brown
 
ROCKING-HORSE LAND • 319
by Laurence Housman • illustrated by the author
 
THE RELUCTANT DRAGON • 327
by Kenneth Grahme • illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
 
THE DELIVERERS OF THEIR COUNTRY • 347
by E. Nesbit • illustrated by H. R. Miller
 
From PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS • 359
by J. M. Barrie • illustrated by Arthur Rackham
 
ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS • 381

Editorial Reviews

A superb anthology. The keynote of the collection is pure enchantment.”
—The Washington Post Book World
 
“The language is elegant and lush, shot through with starlight and rainbows.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“A delight.”
—Madeleine L’Engle

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