Sleeping Beauty, The

Evans, C.S. (editor)

ISBN 10: 1857159209 / ISBN 13: 9781857159202

Edité par Everyman's Library, London, United Kingdom, 1993

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Decorative cloth binding with gilt titles, color pastedown to front board, fancy gilt and black stamped spine. Decorative endpapers. 108 pp. Illustrated throughout in color by Rackham. New condition. Gift quality. Congratulations to Everyman's Library for producing a truly beautiful new illustrated children's book in a high quality format. The beautiful princess, the deadly spinning wheel, the hundred-year sleep, the briar-covered castle, the prince's kiss?the classic fairytale is presented here in a 1920 telling by C.S. Evans. A favorite for all ages, this handsome edition is illustrated with stylish silhouette ink drawings by master children's illustrator Arthur Rackham. The books in this outstanding series of classic children's literature are of unusually high quality, with acid-free paper and full-cloth sewn bindings for long life. They look costly, with linen covers, gold stamped spines, and silk ribbon markers, yet are surprisingly inexpensive.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Sleeping Beauty, The
• Éditeur: Everyman's Library, London, United Kingdom
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1857159209
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781857159202
• Reliure: Decorative Cloth
• Illustrateur: Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)
• Édition: Reprint
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket As Issued
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Rare Children's Books

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Synopsis

This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of the spring revival of the earth after a long winter. Charles Seddon Evans, a schoolmaster turned publisher, retold the story specially for Arthur Rackham, who illustrated it with silhouette drawing as a companion volume to CINDERELLA, both first published in 1919 and now reissued in Everyman's Library.

Biographie de l'auteur

Charles Seddon Evans (1883-1944) was educated at East London College and began his career as a schoolmaster before joining the publishing house of Edward Arnold as Educational Editor in 1909. He moved to the firm of Heinemann in 1913, where he spent the rest of his working life, becoming Chairman and Managing Director in 1932. He wrote this version of The Sleeping Beauty as a companion volume to Cinderella, also illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The story first appeared in English in 1729, when Robert Samber translated Charles Perrault's fairy tale La Belle au bois dormant. C.S. Evans has expanded Perrault's story but followed the later version recorded by the Brothers Grimm in giving his heroine the name of Briar-Rose and ending with her awakening and betrothal, omitting the wicked mother-in-law who orders her grandchildren to be cooked for supper. Instead he lengthens the story by such inventive details as the menu for the christening feast, the books of magic consulted for an antidote to the thirteenth fairy's malice, and the many accomplishments of Princess Briar-Rose.