The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

From Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme's The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living.

Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old.

Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Author: Michael Patrick Hearn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 12/03/2002
Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780375714559
Revised Edition

About the Author

MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN is a scholar of children's books and their illustration. His many works include The Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, The Annotated Christmas Carol, The Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books, and Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. He lives in New York City.