Joseph Jacobs

Europa's Fairy Book (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrated, Annotated Edition
Illustrator: Batten, John Dickson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

«Europa's Fairy Book» is a collection of European fairy tales restored and retold by Joseph Jacobs. This ebook edition from Animedia Company is magnificently illustrated by John Dickson Batten and consists of 29 marvellous tales, such as:

Snowwhite, Beauty and the Beast, The Cinder-Maid, All Change, The King of the Fishes, Scissors, Reynard and Bruin, The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, The Language of Animals, The Three Soldiers, A Dozen at a Blow, The Earl of Cattenborough, The Swan Maidens, Androcles and the Lion Day-Dreaming, Keep Cool, The Master Thief, The Unseen Bridegroom, The Master-Maid, A Visitor From Paradise, Inside Again, John the True, Johnnie and Grizzle, The Clever Lass, Thumbkin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Animedia Classics
• Seitenzahl: 199
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788074994630
• Artikelnr.: 63566539

Autorenporträt

Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English Folklore. His work went on to popularize some of the worlds best known versions of English fairy tales including "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Goldilocks and the three bears", "The Three Little Pigs", "Jack the Giant Killer" and "The History of Tom Thumb".He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairytales in 1894 but also went on after and in between both books to publish fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, "Celtic and Indian Fairytales" which made him one of the most popular writers of fairytales for the English language. Jacobs was also an editor for journals and books on the subject of folklore which included editing the Fables of Bidpai and the Fables of Aesop.