August Nemo

Oscar Wilde

John Ruskin

Kenneth Grahame

Edith Nesbit

George MacDonald

Dinah Craik

Welcome to the book series 7 best short stories specials, selection dedicated to a special subject, featuring works by noteworthy authors. The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Victorian Fairy Tale: The reinvention of fairy tales was a very particular feature of Victorian literature. Many authors dedicated to other genres tried their luck by making their own versions of the fairytale universe. This book contains the following texts: - The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin; - The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray; - The Golden Key by George MacDonald; - The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Craik; - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde; - Melisande by Edith Nesbit; - The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame. For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

7 best short stories - Victorian Fairy Tales

The Fairy Book – The Best Popular Fairy Stories was originally published in 1913. It is a collection of classic children’s tales, compiled and edited by Dinah Craik, and illustrated by Warwick Goble. In the words of the author, it is intended as ‘the best collection attainable of that delight of all children, and of many grown people who retain the child-heart still – the old-fashioned, time-honoured classic Fairy Tale. It includes the narratives of ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Tom Thumb’, ‘Rumpelstiltskin’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and many more. Warwick Goble (1862 – 1943) was an illustrator of children’s books, who specialised in Japanese and Indian themes. The son of a commercial traveller, he was educated at the Westminster School of art, and specialised in chromolithographic printing. His work is delicate in its colouring, and masterful in its presentation of line and form. Some of Goble’s best known works include illustrations for Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, and H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children’s stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors.

The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew - Illustrated by Warwick Goble

William Makepeace Thackeray

The reinvention of fairy tales was a very particular feature of Victorian literature. Many authors dedicated to other genres tried their luck by making their own versions of the fairytale universe. The critic August Nemo selected seven of these Victorian fairy tales for your appreciation: - The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin. - The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray. - The Golden Key by George MacDonald. - The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Craik - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde. - Melisande by Edith Nesbit. - The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame.

7 Best Short Stories: Victorian Fairy Tales

The bestselling Victorian author Dinah Craik, often credited as Miss Mulock, is best remembered today for her novel ‘John Halifax, Gentleman’, a celebrated classic that presents the ideals of English middle-class life. She enjoyed great success as a novelist, earning vast sums and securing an adoring readership, who admired the genuine passion and imaginative storytelling of her novels. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Craik’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, detailed introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Craik’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 20 novels, digitised here for the first time, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare story collections available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Craik’s rare non-fiction, including her last book ‘An Unknown Country’ – available in no other collection * Features two biographies – discover Craik’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels The Ogilvies (1849) Olive (1850) The Head of the Family (1851) Alice Learmont (1852) Agatha’s Husband (1853) The Little Lychetts (1855) John Halifax, Gentleman (1857) A Life for a Life (1859) Mistress and Maid (1862) Christian’s Mistake (1865) A Noble Life (1866) Two Marriages (1867) The Woman’s Kingdom (1869) A Brave Lady (1870) Hannah (1871) My Mother and I (1874) The Laurel Bush (1876) Young Mrs. Jardine (1879) Miss Tommy (1884) King Arthur (1886) The Shorter Fiction Michael the Miner (1846) How to Win Love (1848) Cola Monti (1849) The Half-Caste (1851) Bread upon the Waters (1852) A Hero (1853) Avillion and Other Tales (1853) The Fairy Book (1863) Little Sunshine’s Holiday (1871) The Adventures of a Brownie (1872) Is It True? (1872) The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling-Cloak (1875) His Little Mother (1881) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction A Woman’s Thoughts about Women (1858) An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall (1884) An Unknown Country (1887) The Biographies Miss Muloch (1887) by Ella Dinah Mulock (1897) by Mrs. Parr Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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