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English Fairy Tales.
Title:
English Fairy Tales.
Author:
Jacobs, Joseph.
ISBN:
9781775565185
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- How to Get into this Book -- Preface -- 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 -- Notes and References.
Abstract:
We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies (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...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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