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English Fairy Tales: Macmillan Collector's Library
[Hardback - 2016]
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Category: Children
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Additional Category: Collector's Editions
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library Uk | ISBN: 9781909621466 | Pages: 320
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Fairy tales are written both to entertain and to educate. Published in the shadow of the First World War, F. A. Steel s retellings of forty-one English fairy tales form a classic collection of stories, ranging from the familiar - Jack and the Beanstalk , Little Red Riding-Hood and The Three Little Pigs - to the perhaps less well known - The Black Bull of Norroway , Nix Nought Nothing and The Red Ettin . Originally published in 1918, it reflects the nationalistic concerns of the period. Steel takes the reader on a journey, from Cornwall to Bamburgh Castle via a palace by the sea, as well as high into the sky, where a giant lives. The magical tales in English Fairy Tales are brought to life by one of the best-known illustrators of the time, Arthur Rackham.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure.

Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) was the author of more than thirty books, most of which were novels describing Anglo-Indian life during the British Raj. She moved to India with her husband in 1867 and lived there for twenty-two years. Steel had a strong interest in traditional Indian culture and folk tales, and was a contemporary of John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard Kipling s father, with whom she worked to encourage local arts and crafts.

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