English Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs

Overview

HOW TO GET INTO THIS BOOK.

Knock at the Knocker on the Door,

Pull the Bell at the side,

Then, if you are very quiet, you will hear a teeny tiny voice say through the grating "Take down the Key." This you will find at the back: you cannot mistake it, for it has J. J. in the wards. Put the Key in the Keyhole, which it fits exactly, unlock the door and WALK IN.

This book contains many of the best-loved fairy tales form England. Favorites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783736808751
Publisher:	BookRix
Publication date:	06/28/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	768 KB

About the Author

Born in Australia in 1854, Joseph Jacobs spent most of his adult life in England where he became, with Andrew Lang, a prominent member of the English Folk Lore Society founded in 1878. He spent ten years collecting from storytellers or printed sources the fairy tales that were first published in two volumes in 1890 and 1894 and now appear here in one Everyman’s Library volume. Jacobs was a cheerful man, with a down-to-earth attitude towards fairy tales, which he regarded as “essentially colloquial” rather than romantic. Though his approach to collecting and recording material was scholarly, his telling of the tales was deliberately directed at young listeners, and he tried them out on his own three children. He died in 1916.

Table of Contents

I. TOM TIT TOT
II. THE THREE SILLIES
III. THE ROSE-TREE
IV. THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG
V. HOW JACK WENT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE
VI. MR. VINEGAR
VII. NIX NOUGHT NOTHING
VIII. JACK HANNAFORD
IX. BINNORIE
X. MOUSE AND MOUSER
XI. CAP O' RUSHES
XII. TEENY-TINY
XIII. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
XIV. THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
XV. THE MASTER AND HIS PUPIL
XVI. TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE
XVII. JACK AND HIS GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX
XVIII. THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS
XIX. JACK THE GIANT-KILLER
XX. HENNY-PENNY
XXI. CHILDE ROWLAND
XXII. MOLLY WHUPPIE
XXIII. THE RED ETTIN
XXIV. THE GOLDEN ARM
XXV. THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB
XXVI. MR. FOX
XXVII. LAZY JACK
XXVIII. JOHNNY-CAKE
XXIX. EARL MAR'S DAUGHTER
XXX. MR. MIACCA
XXXI. WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
XXXII. THE STRANGE VISITOR
XXXIII. THE LAIDLY WORM OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH
XXXIV. THE CAT AND THE MOUSE
XXXV. THE FISH AND THE RING
XXXVI. THE MAGPIE'S NEST
XXXVII. KATE CRACKERNUTS
XXXVIII. THE CAULD LAD OF HILTON
XXXIX. "THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK"
XL. FAIRY OINTMENT
XLI. THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END
XLII. MASTER OF ALL MASTERS
XLIII. THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL
NOTES AND REFERENCES