English Fairy Tales
English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume...
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Author: Jacobs, Joseph,1854-1916
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English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales

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English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales

$105.69 $52.82
Author: Jacobs, Joseph,1854-1916
Format: eBook
Language: English
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English Fairy Tales

Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist. A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. I am hoping that the present volume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, to me, care of Mr. Nutt. The only reason, I imagine, why such tales have not hitherto been brought to light, is the lamentable gap between the governing and recording classes and the dumb working classes of this countrydumb to others but eloquent among themselves. It would be no unpatriotic task to help to bridge over this gulf, by giving a common fund of nursery literature to all classes of the English people, and, in any case, it can do no harm to add to the innocent gaiety of the nation. A word or two as to our title seems necessary. We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies. [Footnote: For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes.] The same remark applies to the collection of the Brothers Grimm and to all the other European collections, which contain exactly the same classes of tales as ours. Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for Fairy Tales, and this is the only name which they give to them. One cannot imagine a child saying, Tell us a folk-tale, nurse, or Another nursery tale, please, grandma. As our book is intended for the little ones, we have indicated its contents by the name they use. The words Fairy Tales must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something fairy, something extraordinaryfairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors. Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls. They serve to justify the title of Merrie England, which used to be given to this country of ours, and indicate unsuspected capacity for fun and humour among the unlettered classes. The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens our collection, is unequalled among all other folk-tales I am acquainted with, for its combined sense of humour and dramatic power. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 7439
Author: Jacobs, Joseph
Release Date: Feb 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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