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Summary
(From the publisher):
This marvellous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. With tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child which exists in every adult.
Original title: The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Reinterpretations
Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Original Creations
The following works are contained within this one:
Uncle David's Nonsensical Story about Giants and Fairies (1839) [Short Story]
Author: Catherine Sinclair
Feathertop (1846) [Short Story]
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
King of the Golden River, the (1850) [Short Story]
Author: John Ruskin
Story of Fairyfoot, the (1856) [Short Story]
Author: Frances Browne
Light Princess, the (1864) [Short Story]
Author: George MacDonald
Magic Fishbone, the (1868) [Short Story]
Author: Charles Dickens
Toy Princess, a (1877) [Short Story]
Author: Mary de Morgan
New Mother, the (1882) [Short Story]
Author: Lucy Lane Clifford
Good Luck Is Better Than Gold (1882) [Short Story]
Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing
Apple of Contentment, the (1886) [Short Story]
Author: Howard Pyle
Griffin and the Minor Canon, the (1887) [Short Story]
Author: Frank R. Stockton
Selfish Giant, the (1888) [Short Story]
Author: Oscar Wilde
Rooted Lover, the (1894) [Short Story]
Author: Laurence Housman
Song of the Morrow, the (1894) [Short Story]
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Reluctant Dragon, the (1898) [Short Story]
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Book of Beasts, the (1900) [Short Story]
Author: Edith Nesbit
Queen of Quok, the (1901) [Short Story]
Author: L. Frank Baum
Magic Shop, the (1903) [Short Story]
Author: H. G. Wells
Kith of the Elf- Folk, the (1908) [Short Story]
Author: Lord Dunsany
Story of Blixie Blimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher, the (1922) [Short Story]
Author: Carl Sandburg
Lovely Myfanwy, the (1925) [Short Story]
Author: Walter de la Mare
Troll, the (1935) [Short Story]
Author: T.H. White
Bluebeard's Daughter (1940) [Short Story]
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Chaser, the (1940) [Short Story]
Author: John Collier
Gertrude's Child (1940) [Short Story]
Author: Richard Hughes
Unicorn in the Garden, the (1940) [Short Story]
Author: James Thurber
King of the Elves (1953) [Short Story]
Author: Philip K. Dick
In the Family (1957) [Short Story]
Author: Naomi Mitchison
Jewbird, the (1963) [Short Story]
Author: Bernard Malamud
Menaseh's Dream (1968) [Short Story]
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Glass Mountain, the (1970) [Short Story]
Author: Donald Barthelme
Prince Amilec (1972) [Short Story]
Author: Tanith Lee
Petronella (1973) [Short Story]
Author: Jay Williams
Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick, the (1976) [Short Story]
Author: Joan Aiken
Courtship of Mr Lyon, the (1979) [Short Story]
Author: Angela Carter
River Maid, the (1982) [Short Story]
Author: Jane Yolen
Princess Who Stood on Her Own Two Feet, the (1982) [Short Story]
Author: Jeanne Desy
Wife's Story, the (1982) [Short Story]
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Porcelain Man, the (1987) [Short Story]
Author: Richard Kennedy
Old Man Potchikoo (1989) [Short Story]
Author: Louise Erdrich
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