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Post by Nalkarj 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).
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Aug 9, 2018 14:41:23 GMT
Not a series but a very enjoyable modern day fairy story: One Summer's Night by Mary Alice Kruesi Second Star to the Right by Mary Alice Monroe (aka Kruesi) has fairies (also modern day and a must for fans of Peter Pan)
The Midnight Texas series by Charlaine Harris also has a character that's a fairy.
I wish there were more "fairy" themed novels.
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 10, 2018 11:09:42 GMT
Not a series but a very enjoyable modern day fairy story: One Summer's Night by Mary Alice Kruesi Second Star to the Right by Mary Alice Monroe (aka Kruesi) has fairies (also modern day and a must for fans of Peter Pan) The Midnight Texas series by Charlaine Harris also has a character that's a fairy. I wish there were more "fairy" themed novels. Ah, just to clarify, I don’t necessarily mean “stories about fairies” but, rather, fairy-tales in the Brothers Grimm/Hans Christian Anderson sense.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 17:39:09 GMT
Can't really beat Grimms and Anderson, can you? I mean, they're the gold standard.
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Post by needysboy on Aug 10, 2018 22:02:20 GMT
There is a collection with illustrations by Tasha Tudor that I had when I was little. I recall that pictures were rich and lavish and realistic. It was one of my first books and I'm sure my mother inscribed it with her beautiful hand writing. I no longer have the book; my cousin sole it. Goddamn thieves! One of my first memories is sitting by the window of my bedroom looking at the pictures. I'm pretty sure in was "Tasha Tudor's Book of Fairy Tales," published in '61 or '63.
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