The Victorian Fairy Tale Book
Michael Patrick Hearn
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<p>From Robert Browning's <i>Pied Piper of Hamelin</i> and William Makepeace Thackeray's <i>Rose and the Ring</i> to Kenneth Grahme's <i>Reluctant Dragon </i>and J. M. Barrie's <i>Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, </i>here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one --in the words of Laurence Houseman, author of the classic <i>Rocking Horse Land</i>--"is an expression of the joy of living."<br><br>Accompanied by the illustrations from the original editions of these works--by such celebrated Victorian artists as Dante, Gabriel Rossetti, Maxfield Parrish, and Arthur Rackham--this collection will delight readers both young and old.<br><br>Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library </p><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>