English Fairy Tales - Couverture souple

Gill, Margery; Jacobs, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140367853 ISBN 13 : 9780140367850

Editeur : Puffin Books, 1994

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in Australia in 1854, Joseph Jacobs spent most of his adult life in England where he became, with Andrew Lang, a prominent member of the English Folk Lore Society founded in 1878. He spent ten years collecting from storytellers or printed sources the fairy tales that were first published in two volumes in 1890 and 1894 and now appear here in one Everyman’s Library volume. Jacobs was a cheerful man, with a down-to-earth attitude towards fairy tales, which he regarded as “essentially colloquial” rather than romantic. Though his approach to collecting and recording material was scholarly, his telling of the tales was deliberately directed at young listeners, and he tried them out on his own three children. He died in 1916.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Joseph Jacobs was an Australian writer, historian, and literary critic. Jacobs became one of the greatest collectors of English folklore in history when he published English Fairy Tales in 1890. Jacobs' collection of over 40 fairy tales include classics such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, The History of Tom Thumb, and Jack and the Beanstalk.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Puffin Books
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140367853
• ISBN 13: 9780140367850
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208