English Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library)

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