Can I read English Fairy Tales on EtoBox?

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is English Fairy Tales about?

From the book:Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist. A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. I am hoping that the present volume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, to me, care of Mr. Nutt. The only reason, I imagine, why such tales have not hitherto been brought to light, is the lamentable gap between the governing and recording classes and the dumb working classes of this country - dumb to others but eloquent among themselves. It would be no unpatriotic task to help to bridge over this gulf, by giving a common fund of nursery literature to all classes of the English people, and, in any case, it can do

Who reads English Fairy Tales?

Author

Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs

Publisher

Dodo Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781406518153

Category

children's

Subjects

Children'S, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14