Post by Salzmank on Aug 9, 2018 12:43:42 GMT
Fairy tales really are wonderful, as in full of wonder—exuberant and vivacious, fantastical and true, in that very old, storytelling sense. “All life is allegory,” as Chesterton put it, and it’s no surprise that Chesterton, like Tolkien, was a great defender of fairy-stories. Anyway. What are the best collections you know? I’m reading a rather good one, Stokes’s Wonder Book of Fairy Tales (most recently reprinted, because of the efforts of Jack Fowler, as The National Review Book of Fairy Tales).