| Description |
xviii, 455 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-455). |
| Contents |
Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies (1839) / Catherine Sinclair -- Feathertop (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The king of the Golden River (1850) / John Ruskin -- The story of Fairyfoot (1856) / Frances Browne -- The light princess (1864) / George MacDonald -- The magic fishbone (1868) / Charles Dickens -- A toy princess (1877) / Mary De Morgan -- The new mother (1882) / Lucy Lane Clifford -- Good luck is better than gold (1882) / Juliana Horatia Ewing -- The apple of contentment (1886) / Howard Pyle -- The griffin and the minor canon (1887) / Frank Stockton -- The selfish giant (1888) / Oscar Wilde -- The rooted lover (1894) / Laurence Housman -- The song of the morrow (1894) / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The reluctant dragon (1898) / Kenneth Grahame -- The book of beasts (1900) / E. Nesbit -- The Queen of Quok (1901) / L.F. Baum -- The magic shop (1903) / H.G. Wells -- The Kith of the Elf-folk (1910) / Lord Dunsany -- The story of Blixie Bimber and the power of the gold Buckskin Whincher (1922) / Carl Sandburg -- The lovely Myfanwy (1925) / Walter De La Mare -- The troll (1935) / T.H. White -- Gertrude's child (1940) / Richard Hughes. |
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The unicorn in the garden (1940) / James Thurber -- Bluebeard's daughter (1940) / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The chaser (1941) / John Collier -- The King of the Elves (1953) / Philip K. Dick -- In the family (1957) / Naomi Mitchison -- The jewbird (1963) / Bernard Malamud -- Menaseh's dream (1968) / I.B. Singer -- The glass mountain (1970) / Donald Barthelme -- Prince Amilec (1972) / Tanith Lee -- Petronella (1973) / Jay Williams -- The man who had seen the rope trick (1976) / Joan Aiken -- The courtship of Mr Lyon (1979) / Angela Carter -- The princess who stood on her own two feet (1982) / Jeanne Desy -- The wife's story (1982) / Ursula Le Guin -- The river maid (1982) / Jane Yolen -- The porcelain man (1987) / Richard Kennedy -- Old Man Potchikoo (1989) / Louise Erdrich. |
| Subject |
Fairy tales -- Great Britain.
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Fairy tales -- United States.
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| Indexed Term |
Tales |
| Added Author |
Lurie, Alison.
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| ISBN |
0192142186 (acid-free paper) |
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9780192142184 (acid-free paper) |
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