English Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are written to both entertain and educate, and published in the shadow of the First World War, F. A. 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’ . Originally published in 1918 it reflects the nationalistic concerns of the period. 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. These magical tales are brought to life by one of the best-known illustrators of the time, Arthur Rackham.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

• Stories included in this edition:
  St. George of Merrie England;
• The Story of the Three Bears;
• Tom-Tit-Tot;
• The Golden Snuff-Box;
• Tattercoats;
• The Three Feathers;
• Lazy Jack
• Jack the Giant-Killer;
• The Three Sillies;
• The Golden Ball;
• The Two Sisters;
• The Laidly Worm;
• Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse;
• Jack and the Beanstalk;
• The Black Bull of Norroway;
• Catskin;
• The Three Little Pigs;
• Nix Naught Nothing;
• Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar;
• The True History of Sir Thomas Thumb;
• Henny-Penny;
• The Three Heads of the Well;
• Mr. Fox;
• Dick Whittington and his Cat;
• The Wee Bannock;
• How Jack went out to seek his Fortune;
• The Bogey-Beast;
• Little Red Riding-Hood;
• Childe Rowland;
• The Wise Men of Gotham;
• Caporushes;
• The Babes in the Wood;
• The Red Ettin;
• The Fish and the Ring;
• Lawkamercyme;
• Master of all Masters;
• Molly Whuppie and the Double-faced Giant;
• The Ass, the Table, and the Stick;
• The Well of the World's End;
• The Rose Tree.