Joseph Jacobs

Twenty-six enchanting tales of Celtic Magic and Legend collected by Joseph Jacobs. Over 50 illustrations. A must have treasury for those interested in Celtic Mythology.

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 no harm to add to the innocent gaiety of the nation.

The Bag Saki The Blood Feud of Toad-Water - A west Country Epic Saki The Conversion of Aunt Sarah Archibald Marshall The Devil in the Churchyard A. E. Coppard Gabriel-Ernest Saki The Generous Gambler Charles Baudelaire A Harbinger Kate Chopin The Horse Dealer’s Daughter D. H. Lawrence Innocence Honoré de Balzac In the Graveyard Anton Chekhov The King o' the Cats Joseph Jacobs The Last Lesson Alphonse Daudet The Lost Sanjak Saki The Mouse Saki The Packet Stacy Aumonier People Soup Alan Arkin A Reminiscence Of The Back Settlements Mark Twain The Resident Patient Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Two Apples James Edmund Dunning Uncle Bentley And The Roosters Hayden Carruth

The Moon is held prisoner in the bog by the Evil Ones until the townspeople miss her light and go to search for her.

Jack was extraordinarily talented when it came to disposing of giants whether they had one, two, or three heads.

Retells the adventures of the lazy boy who could never do anything right but became rich in spite of himself.

Rather than suffer the fate of his two brothers, a pig cleverly outwits a persistent wolf once and for all.

Retells the traditional English tale of how poor, neglected Tattercoats comes to marry the Prince.

A Johnny-cake escapes the oven and outruns man and beast but meets his match in the wily fox.

When Farmer Jan begins to ask his new wife what she can do, a series of disasters follows.

Her new employer teaches a servant girl unusual names for familiar things.

A poor pedlar is told in a dream he will hear good news on London Bridge.

An anthology of six folk tales of love and friendship.

The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.

Forty-four lesser known tales collected from English folklore, including Yallery Brown, Tom Hickathrift, Scrapefoot, A. Pottle O'Brains, Tamlane, and Tabetrot and Scantie Mab.

Twenty-nine traditional tales from India include "The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal," "The Lion and the Crane," and "Why the Fish Laughed."

Leprechauns, fairies, and medieval heroes figure in the strange events related in this paperback reprint of twenty Celtic folk and fairy tales.

A collection of children's folk and fairy tales, including fables of Aesop.