![]() "First published in 1918"-Title page verso These magical tales are brought to life by one of the best-known illustrators of the time, Arthur Rackham." Steel takes the reader on a journey from Cornwall to Bamborough Castle, via a palace by the sea and high into the sky, where a giant lives. Originally published in 1918 it reflects the nationalistic concerns of the period. ![]() Steel's retellings of forty-one 'English Fairy Tales' is a classic collection of such stories which range from the familiar-'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Little Red Riding-Hood', and 'The Three Little Pigs'-to the perhaps less well-known-'The Black Bull of Norroway', 'Nix Nought Nothing', and 'The Red Ettin'. "Fairy tales are written to both entertain and educate, and published in the shadow of the First World War, F. ![]()
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