English Fairy Tales: Illustrated by John Batten - Couverture rigide

Jacobs, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679428097 ISBN 13 : 9780679428091

Editeur : Everyman's Library, 1993

Synopsis

A series with silk-ribbon markers and headbands, gold stamping on front and spine, and the original colour illustrations on the jackets. First published in 1890, this collection of fairy tales contains the well-known English ones as well as British variants of stories common to many cultures.

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 :

A collection of 87 classic English fairy tales, with black-and-white illustrations throughout by John Batten.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Everyman's Library
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679428097
• ISBN 13: 9780679428091
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 428
• Illustrateur: Batten John