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Subject(s)

• Fairy tales [Browse]

Editor

• Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965- [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. From whimsy to satire, the stories reveal the preoccupations of the age and celebrate the value of the imagination.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record and publisher information.

Contents

• Rumpel-Stilts-kin / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
• The Princess and the Peas / Hans Christian Andersen
• The Story of the Three Bears / Robert Southey
• The King of the Golden River / John Ruskin
• The Rose and the Ring / William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Golden Key / George Macdonald
• The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak / Dinah Mulock Craik
• The Wanderings of Arasmon / Mary De Morgan
• The First Wife's Wedding-Ring / Juliana Horatia Ewing
• The Selfish Giant / Oscar Wilde
• Prince Prigio / Andrew Lang
• The Queen Who Flew / Ford Madox Ford
• The Story of the Herons / Laurence Housman
• The Reluctant Dragon / Kenneth Grahame
• Melisande / E. Nesbit
• Dymchurch Flit / Rudyard Kipling
• Appendix: What is a Fairy Tale?
• `Introduction' to German Popular Tales / John Ruskin
• `Preface' to Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales / Juliana Horatia Ewing
• `The Fantastic Imagination' / George Macdonald.

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ISBN

• 0-19-101736-1
• 0-19-192004-5
• 0-19-882579-X
• 0-19-101735-3

OCLC

958504799

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