Andrew Lang – The Olive Fairy Book
In our Fairy Cabinet (...) we have aimed at pleasing children, not 'grown-ups', at whom the old French writers directed ...
In our Fairy Cabinet (...) we have aimed at pleasing children, not 'grown-ups', at whom the old French writers directed ...
Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing. A sense ...
Kraina Czarów to ziemia, gdzie na nierozważnych czekają pułapki, a na zbyt śmiałych – więzienne lochy. Królestwo baśni rozciąga ...
Pixies, elves, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, and the other enchanted little people: where do they come from? Folklorists consider them the ...
(…) Naturally, this is not a general collection of legendary ballads, and the slightly hackneyed themes of love and romance, ...
THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND'S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, in his later years became attracted to spiritualism and occult topics. This ...
The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries - Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, ...
In our Fairy Cabinet (…) we have aimed at pleasing children, not ‚grown-ups’, at whom the old French writers directed their romances, but have hunted for fairy tales in all quarters, not in Europe alone. In this volume we open, thanks to Dr. Ignaz Kiinos, with a story from the Turks. ‚Little King LOG’ is an original invention by M. Anatole France, which he very kindly permitted Mrs. Lang to adapt from ‚L’Abeille’.