The Oxford book of modern fairy tales

Book 1993

Most people think of fairy tales as having been created anonymously and almost magically long ago, and later discovered and recorded by scholars such as the Brothers Grimm. In fact original fairy tales are still being written. Over the last century and a half many well-known authors have used the characters and settings and themes of traditional tales such as 'Cinderella', 'Hansel and Gretel', and 'Beauty and the Beast' to produce new and charact...

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ISBN:

9780192142184
019282385X
0192142186

Description:

xviii, 455 pages ; 22 cm

Target Audience Note:

Adult

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-455)

Contents:

Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies / C. Sinclair
Feathertop / N. Hawthorne
The King of the Golden River / J. Ruskin
The story of Fairyfoot / F. Browne
The light princess / G. MacDonald
The magic fishbone / C. Dickens
A toy princess / M. De Morgan
The new mother / L.L. Clifford
Good luck is better than gold / J.H. Ewing
The apple of contentment / H. Pyle
The griffon and the minor canon / F. Stockton
The selfish giant / O. Wilde
The rooted lover / L. Housman
The song of the morrow / R.L. Stevenson
The reluctant dragon / K. Grahame
The book of beasts / E. Nesbit
The queen of Quok / L.F. Baum
The magic shop / H.G. Wells
The Kith of the elf-folk / Lord Dunsany
The story of Blixie Bimber and the power of the gold Buckskin Whincher / C. Sandburg
The lovely Myfanwy / W. De la Mare
The troll / T.H. White
Gertrude's child / R. Hughes
The unicorn in the garden / J. Thurber
Bluebeard's daughter / S.T. Warner
The chaser / J. Collier
The king of the elves / P.K. Dick
In the family / N. Mitchison
The Jewbird / B. Malamud
Menaseh's dream
I.B. Singer
The glass mountain / D. Barthelme
Prince Amilec / T. Lee
Petronella / J. Williams
The man who had seen the rope trick / J. Aiken
The courtship of Mr Lyon / A. Carter
The princess who stood on her own two feet / J. Desy
The wife's story / U. Le Guin
The river maid / J. Yolen
The porcelain main / R. Kennedy
Old man Potchikoo / L. Erdrich

LCCN:

92028007

Control Number:

51070

Other Authors:

Lurie, Alison

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