Название: The Red Fairy Book
Автор: Various
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664108432
isbn:
Various
The Red Fairy Book
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664108432
Table of Contents
THE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS
THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.
THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND
THE TRUE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOLDEN HOOD
PREFACE
IN a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land we cannot expect to find a second Perrault. But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends. The tales have been translated, or, in the case of those from Madame d’Aulnoy’s long stories, adapted, by Mrs. Hunt from the Norse, by Miss Minnie Wright from Madame d’Aulnoy, by Mrs. Lang and Miss Bruce from other French sources, by Miss May Sellar, Miss Farquharson, and Miss Blackley from the German, while the story of ‘Sigurd’ is condensed by the Editor from Mr. William Morris’s prose version of the ‘Volsunga Saga.’ The Editor has to thank his friend, M. Charles Marelles, for permission to reproduce his versions of the ‘Pied Piper,’ of ‘Drakestail,’ and of ‘Little Golden Hood’ from the СКАЧАТЬ