NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader, iPad e-book reader, iPhone e-book reader, BlackBerry e-book reader, Android e-book reader, iPod e-book reader and your Amazon Desktop Reader.
A charming collection of fairy tales compiled by acclaimed folklorist, literary critic and historian, Joseph Jacobs. Jacobs wrote for journals and books on the subject of folklore and produced several popular series of fairy tales.
Obviously, an anthology of this nature will not please everybody perfectly because there is a wide variety of themes and stylistic approaches represented in this book. Nevertheless, this is an excellent collection of stories from a wide variety of different themes, styles, viewpoints, subjects, tones and genres.
Included in this collection:
-- TOM TIT TOT
-- THE THREE SILLIES
-- THE ROSE-TREE
-- THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG
-- HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE
-- MR. VINEGAR
-- NIX NOUGHT NOTHING
-- JACK HANNAFORD
-- BINNORIE
-- MOUSE AND MOUSER
-- CAP O’ RUSHES
-- TEENY-TINY
-- JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
-- THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
-- THE MASTER AND HIS PUPIL
-- TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE
-- JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX
-- THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS
-- JACK THE GIANT-KILLER
-- HENNY-PENNY
-- CHILDE ROWLAND
-- MOLLY WHUPPIE
-- THE RED ETTIN
-- THE GOLDEN ARM
-- THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB
-- MR. FOX
-- LAZY JACK
-- JOHNNY-CAKE
-- EARL MAR’S DAUGHTER
-- MR. MIACCA
-- WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
-- THE STRANGE VISITOR
-- THE LAIDLY WORM OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH
-- THE CAT AND THE MOUSE
-- THE FISH AND THE RING
-- THE MAGPIE’S NEST
-- KATE CRACKERNUTS
-- THE CAULD LAD OF HILTON
-- THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK
-- FAIRY OINTMENT
-- THE WELL OF THE WORLD’S END
-- MASTER OF ALL MASTERS
-- THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL
These are the original and unabridged versions of these classics!
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