English Fairy Tales
English Fairy Tales
Summary
This book contains not only over 40 fairy tales, such as "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Babes in the Woods", but stories from different traditions also make an appearance, including "The Three Bears" and "Little Red Riding Hood".
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English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) was an English writer. Born in Middlesex, she married Henry William Steel, a member of the Indian Civil Service, in 1867. Together they moved to India, where they lived for the next two decades. During her time in the Punjab, a region in the north of the Indian subcontinent, Steel developed a deep interest in the life of its native people. Befriending local women, she learned their language and collected folk tales--later published in Tales of the Punjab (1894)--while advocating for educational reform. After moving home to Scotland with her family in 1889, Steel began working on her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) an influential work of historical fiction set during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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ISBN 13 | 9781853261336 |
ISBN 10 | 1853261335 |
Title | English Fairy Tales |
Author | Flora Annie Steel |
Series | Wordsworth Children's Classics |
Condition | Unavailable |
Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
Year published | 1994-04-05 |
Number of pages | 256 |
Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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