From Robert Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin" and William Makepeace Thackeray's "Rose and the Ring" to Kenneth Grahme's "Reluctant Dragon "and J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, "here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them a[...]
The "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is the quintessential American fairy tale, but it is also a controversial children's book. This annoted edition illuminates the numerous contemporary references, provides character sources, and explains the actual meaning of the word "Oz". A facsimile of the rare 1900 fi[...]