Author : Joseph Jacobs Year of publication: 2009 Format: Paperback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: New Category: Childrens books Cost of book: £4.99 Price negotiable: No
Specifics:
A reprint of the 1894 classic compiled by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D Batten. A follow up and companion to ENGLISH FAIRY TALES (1892) it has 254 pages and 33% of the publisher's profit is donated to the Prince's Trust.
ISBN 978-1-907256-09-7
This book has been especially
republished to raise funds for the Prince’s Trust.
Joseph Jacob’s first volume—English
Fairy Tales [1890]—did
not exhaust the scanty remains of traditional English folktales. Most of the
forty-four tales that appear in More English
Fairy Tales had never before appeared in print.
In compiling More English Fairy Tales [1894], Joseph
Jacobs flouted the Florklorist’s creed, choosing to present stories that would
fill children's imaginations “with bright trains of images”. Vividly painted
princesses, Pied Pipers, pots of gold, giants, speaking cats, Kings, Hoybahs,
wise men, washerwomen, and more overflow from this volume, all bound by the
common threads of basic moral lessons.
Many of the tales were
recorded verbatim from storytellers. They are by no means in an authorised form,
and even touch on the “vulgar” using archaic and colloquial English. In the
times following Jacob’s original printing, the literary establishment objected
to the use of such archaic colloquialisms. These tales were told for
generations in a form that used these dialects and ”vulgar” words for
effect. However, the traditional form
makes these stories all the richer in a modern setting.
We invite you to curl up with
this volume and be transported back in time to when England had a hundred or more local
dialects—a time when the words Lawkamercyme
and noddle were commonplace.
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