Celtic Fairy Tales (Collector's Library Classics) - Hardcover

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9781907360183: Celtic Fairy Tales (Collector's Library Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1907360182 ISBN 13: 9781907360183

Publisher: Collectors Library, 2011

These stories are engaging brief episodes of fancy and fantasy from the oral tradition, which were designed to engage and fascinate the young mind, and readers are encouraged to pause awhile to savor such delights from a simpler and less pressured age.

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From the Back Cover:

The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination.
The 26 stories of "Guleesh," "The Horned Women," "King O'Toole and His Goose," "The Sea-Maiden," "The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire," "The Lad with the Goat-Skin," the legendary "Dierdre," "Beth Gellert," and the other wonderful characters, the curses and hexes, the broken promises and granted wishes are accompanied by eight full-page plates, 37 drawings, and decorated capitals and endpieces that help make this book the charming one that generations of youngsters have proclaimed it to be.

About the Author:

Joseph Jacobs was a Jewish historian and leading folklorist whose special passion was fairy tales. He was born in Australia and attended the University of Sydney where he won a scholarship for classics, mathematics, and chemistry. He completed his studies at St. John's College, Cambridge. He eventually came to prominence as the writer of a series of articles in The Times on the persecution of Jews in Russia. Between 1882 and 1900 he gave much time to anthropological studies in connection with the Jewish race, and became an authority on the subject. But his interests were varied. From 1899 to 1900 he edited the journal Folklore, and from 1890 to 1912 he edited five collections of fairy tales. In 1906 he moved to New York and became registrar and professor of English at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He died in January 1916.

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