English Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are written to both entertain and educate, and published in the shadow of the First World War, F. A. Steel’s retellings of forty-one ‘English Fairy Tales’ is a classic collection of such stories which range 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 Bamborough Castle, via a palace by the sea and high into the sky, where a giant lives. These magical 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 beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Stories included in this edition:

St. George of Merrie England

The Story of the Three Bears

Tom-Tit-Tot

The Golden Snuff-Box

Tattercoats

The Three Feathers

Lazy Jack

Jack the Giant-Killer

The Three Sillies

The Golden Ball

The Two Sisters

The Laidly Worm

Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse

Jack and the Beanstalk

The Black Bull of Norroway

Catskin

The Three Little Pigs

Nix Naught Nothing

Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar

The True History of Sir Thomas Thumb

Henny-Penny

The Three Heads of the Well

Mr. Fox

Dick Whittington and his Cat

The Wee Bannock

How Jack went out to seek his Fortune

The Bogey-Beast

Little Red Riding-Hood

Childe Rowland

The Wise Men of Gotham

Caporushes

The Babes in the Wood

The Red Ettin

The Fish and the Ring

Lawkamercyme

Master of all Masters

Molly Whuppie and the Double-faced Giant

The Ass, the Table, and the Stick

The Well of the World's End

The Rose Tree