{"product_id":"the-victorian-fairy-tale-book-isbn-9780375714559","title":"The Victorian Fairy Tale Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Robert Browning’s \u003ci\u003eThe Pied Piper of Hamelin\u003c\/i\u003e and William Makepeace Thackeray’s \u003ci\u003eThe Rose and the Ring\u003c\/i\u003e to Kenneth Grahme’s \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Dragon \u003c\/i\u003eand J. M. Barrie’s \u003ci\u003ePeter Pan in Kensington Gardens, \u003c\/i\u003ehere are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAccompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eINTRODUCTION • xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTHE KING OF GOLDEN RIVER • 3\u003cbr\u003eby John Ruskin • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Richard Doyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN • 25\u003cbr\u003eby Robert Browning • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by George Cruikshank\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ROSE AND THE RING • 37\u003cbr\u003eby William Makepeace Thackeray • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by the author\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTHE MAGIC FISH-BONE • 107\u003cbr\u003eby Charles Dickens • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by John Gilbert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMELILOT • 117\u003cbr\u003eby Henry Morley • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Charles H. Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FAIRIES • 129\u003cbr\u003eby William Allinghamd • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Arthur Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITTLE LAME PRINCE AND HIS TRAVELLING-CLOAK\u003cbr\u003eby Dinah Maria Mulock Craik • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by John McL. Ralston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGLOBLIN MARKET • 193\u003cbr\u003eby Christina Rossetti • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NECKLACE OF PRINCESS FIORIMONDE • 211\u003cbr\u003eby Mary De Morgan • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Walter Crane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOLDEN KEY • 229\u003cbr\u003eby George MacDonald • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Arthur Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STOLEN CHILD • 252\u003cbr\u003eby William Butler Yeats\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTHE SELFISH GIANT • 255\u003cbr\u003eby Oscar Wilde • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Walter Crane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BROWN OWL • 261\u003cbr\u003eby Ford Madox Ford • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Ford Madox Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROCKING-HORSE LAND • 319\u003cbr\u003eby Laurence Housman • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by the author\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE RELUCTANT DRAGON • 327\u003cbr\u003eby Kenneth Grahme • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Maxfield Parrish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DELIVERERS OF THEIR COUNTRY • 347\u003cbr\u003eby E. Nesbit • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by H. R. Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS • 359\u003cbr\u003eby J. M. Barrie • \u003ci\u003eillustrated by Arthur Rackham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS • 381\u003cp\u003e“A superb anthology. The keynote of the collection is pure enchantment.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The language is elegant and lush, shot through with starlight and rainbows.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A delight.”\u003cbr\u003e—Madeleine L’Engle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHAEL PATRICK HEARN \u003c\/b\u003eis a scholar of children's books and their illustration. His many works include \u003ci\u003eThe Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, The Annotated Christmas Carol, The Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Books, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMyth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003eFrom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby John Ruskin\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow the Agricultural System of the Black Brothers Was Interfered with by South West Wind, Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria, there was, in old time, a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It was surrounded, on all sides, by steep and rocky mountains, rising into peaks, which were always covered with snow, and from which a number of torrents descended in constant cataracts. One of these fell westward, over the face of a crag so high, that, when the sun had set to everything else, and all below was darkness, his beams still shone full upon this waterfall, so that it looked like a shower of gold. It was, therefore, called by the people of the neighborhood, the Golden River. It was strange that none of these streams fell into the valley itself. They all descended on the other side of the mountains, and wound away through broad plains and by populous cities. But the clouds were drawn so constantly to the snowy hills, and rested so softly in the circular hollow, that in time of drought and heat, when all the country round was burnt up, there was still rain in the little valley; and its crops were so heavy, and its hay so high, and its apples so red, and its grapes so blue, and its wine so rich, and its honey so sweet, that it was a marvel to every one who beheld it, and was commonly called the Treasure Valley. The whole of this little valley belonged to three brothers, called Schwartz, Hans, and Gluck. Schwartz and Hans, the two elder brothers, were very ugly men, with overhanging eyebrows and small dull eyes, which were always half shut, so that you couldn’t see into \u003ci\u003ethem, \u003c\/i\u003eand always fancied they saw very far into \u003ci\u003eyou. \u003c\/i\u003eThey lived by farming the Treasure Valley, and very good farmers they were. They killed everything that did not pay for its eating. They shot the blackbirds, because they pecked the fruit; and killed the hedgehogs, lest they should suck the cows; they poisoned the crickets for eating the crumbs in the kitchen, and smothered the cicadas, which used to sing all summer in the lime-trees. They worked their servants without any wages, till they would not work any more, and then quarreled with them, and turned them out of doors without paying them. It would have been very odd, if with such a farm, and such a system of farming, they hadn’t gotten very rich; and very rich they \u003ci\u003edid \u003c\/i\u003eget. They generally contrived to keep their corn by them till it was very dear, and then sell it for twice its value; they had heaps of fold lying about on their floors, yet it was never known that they had given so much as a penny or a crust in charity; they never went to mass; grumbled perpetually at paying tithes; and were, in a word, of so cruel and grinding a temper, as to receive from all those with whom they had any dealings, the nick-name of the “Black Brothers.” The youngest brother, Gluck, was as completely opposed, in both appearance and character, to his seniors as could possibly be imagined or desired, He was not above twelve years old, fair, blue-eyed, and kind in temper to every living thing. He did not, of course, agree particularly well with his brothers, or rather, they did not agree with \u003ci\u003ehim. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was usually appointed to the honourable office of turnspit, when there was anything to roast, which was not often; for, to do the brothers justice, they were hardly less sparing upon themselves than upon other people. At other times he used to clean the shoes, floors, and sometimes the plates, occasionally getting what was left on them, by way of encouragements, and a wholesome quantity of dry blows, by way of education.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThings went on in this manner for a long time. At last came a very wet summer, and everything went wrong in the country round. They hay had hardly been got in, when the haystacks were floated bodily down to the sea by an inundation; the vines were cut to pieces with the hail; the corn was all kicked by a black blight; only in the Treasure Valley, as usual, all was safe. As it had rain when there was rain nowhere else, so it had sun when there was sun nowhere else. Every body came to buy corn at the farm, and went away pouring maledictions on the Black Brothers. They asked what they liked, and got it, except from the poor people, who could only beg, and several of whom were starved at their very door, without the slightest regard or notice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt was drawing towards winter, and very cold weather, when one day the two elder brothers had gone out, with their usual warning to little Gluck, who was left to mind the roast, that he was to let nobody in, and give nothing out. Gluck sat down quite close to the fire, for it was raining very hard, and the kitchen walls were by no means dry or comfortable-looking. He turned and turned, and the roast got nice and brown. “What a pity,” thought Gluck, “my brothers never ask anybody to dinner. I’m sure, when they’ve got such a nice piece of mutton as this, and nobody else has got so much as a piece of dry bread, it would do their hearts good to have somebody to eat it with them.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJust as he spoke, there came a double knock at the house door, yet heavy and dull, as though the knocker had been tied up—more like a puff than a knock. “It must be the wind,” said Gluck; “nobody else would venture to knock double knocks at our door.” No it wasn’t the wind: there is came again very hard, and what was particularly astounding, the knocker seemed to be in a hurry, and not to be in the least afraid of the consequences. Gluck went to the window, opened it, and put his head out to see who it was. It was the most extraordinary-looking little gentleman he had ever seen in his life. He had a very long nose, slightly brass-coloured, and expanding towards its termination into a development not unlike the lower extremity of a key bugle. His cheeks were very round, and very red, and might have warranted a supposition that he had been blowing a refractory fire for the last eight-and-forty hours. His eyes twinkled merrily through long silky eyelashes, his moustaches curled twice round like a cork-screw on each side of his mouth, and his hair, of a curious mixed pepper-and-salt colour, descended far over his shoulders. He was about four feet six in height, and wore a conical pointed cap of nearly the same altitude, decorated with a black feather some three feet long. His doublet was prolonged behind into something resembling a violent exaggeration of what is now termed a “swallow-tail,” but was much obscured by the swelling folds of an enormous black, glossy-looking cloak, which must have been very much too long in the calm weather, as the wind, whistling round the old house, carried it clear out from the wearer’s shoulders to about four times his own length.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGluck was so perfectly paralyzed by the singular appearance of his visitor, that he remained fixed without uttering a word, until the old gentleman, having performed another and a more energetic concerto on the knocker, turned round to look after his fly-away cloak. In so doing he caught sight of Gluck’s little yellow head jammed in the window, with its mouth and eyes very wide open indeed,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Hollo!” said the little gentleman, “that’s not the way to answer the door: I’m wet, let me in.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTo do the little gentleman justice, he \u003ci\u003ewas \u003c\/i\u003ewet. His feather hung down between his legs like a beaten puppy’s tail, dripping like an umbrella; and from the ends of his moustaches the water was running into his waistcoat pockets, and out again like a mill-stream.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I beg pardon, sir,” said Gluck, “I’m very sorry, but I really can’t.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Can’t what?” said the old gentleman. “I can’t let you in, sir,—I can’t indeed; my brothers would beat me to death, sir, if I thought of such a thing. What do you want, sir?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Want?” said the old gentleman petulantly. “I want fire, and shelter; and there’s your great fire there blazing, crackling, and dancing on the walls, with nobody to feel it. Let me in, I say; I only want to warm myself.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGluck had had his head, by this time, so long out of the window, that he began to feel it was really unpleasantly cold, and when he turned, and saw the beautiful fire rustling and roaring, and throwing long bright tongues up the chimney, as if it were licking its chops at the savoury smell of the leg of mutton, his heart melted within him that it should be burning away for nothing. “He does look \u003ci\u003every\u003c\/i\u003e wet,” said little Gluck; “I’ll just let him in for a quarter of an hour.” Round he went to the door, and opened it; and as the little gentleman walked in, there came a gust of wind through the house that made the old chimneys totter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“That’s a good boy,” said the little gentleman. “Never mind your brothers. I’ll talk to them.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Pray, sir, don’t do any such thing,” said Gluck. “I can’t let you stay till they come; they’d be the death of me.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Dear me,” said the old gentleman, “I’m very sorry to hear that. How long may I stay?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Only till the mutton’s done, sir,” replied Gluck, “and it’s very brown.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThen the old gentleman walked into the kitchen, and sat himself down on the hob, with the top of his cap accommodated up the chimney, for it was a great deal too high for the roof.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“You’ll soon dry there, sir,” said Gluck, and say down again to turn the mutton. But the old gentleman did \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e dry there, but went on to drip, drip, dripping among the cinders, and the fire fizzed, and sputtered, and began to look very black, and uncomfortable; never was such a cloak; every fold in it ran like a gutter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I beg pardon, sir,” said Gluck at length, after watching the water spreading in long, quick-silver-like streams over the floor for a quarter of an hour, “mayn’t I take your cloak?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“No, thank you,” said the old gentleman.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Your cap, sir?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I am all right, thank you,” said the old gentleman rather gruffly.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“But—sir,—I’m very sorry,” said Gluck, hesitatingly; “but—really sir,—you’re—putting the fire out.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“It’ll take longer to do the mutton then,” replied his visitor drily.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGluck was very much puzzled by the behaviour of his guest; it was such a strange mixture of coolness and humility. He turned away at the string for another five minutes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“That mutton looks very nice,” said the old gentleman at length, “Can’t you give me a little bit?”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Impossible, sir,” said Gluck.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I’m very hungry,” continued the old gentleman. “I’ve had nothing to eat yesterday, nor to-day. They surely couldn’t miss a bit from the knuckle!”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHe spoke in so very melancholy a tone, that it quite melted Gluck’s heart. “They promised me one slice to-day, sir,” said he. “I can give you that, but not a bit more.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“That’s a good boy,” said the old gentleman again.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThen Gluck warmed a plate, and sharpened a knife. “I don’t care if I do get beaten for it,” thought he. Just as he had cut a large slice out of the mutton, there came a tremendous rap at the door. The old gentleman jumped off the hob, as if it had suddenly become inconveniently warm. Gluck fitted the slice into the mutton again, with desperate efforts at exactitude, and ran to open the door.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“What did you keep us waiting in the rain for?” said Schwartz, as he walked in, throwing his umbrella in Gluck’s face. “Ay! what for, indeed, you little vagabond?” said Hans, administering an educational box on the ear, as he followed his brother into the kitchen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Bless my soul!” said Schwartz when he opened the door,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Amen,” said the little gentleman, who had taken his cap off, and was standing in the middle of the kitchen, bowing with the utmost velocity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Who’s that?” said Schwartz, catching up a rolling-pin, and turning to Gluck with a fierce frown.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I don’t know, indeed, brother,” said Gluck in great terror.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“How did he get in?” roared Schwartz.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“My dear brother,” said Gluck, deprecatingly, “he was so \u003ci\u003every \u003c\/i\u003ewet!”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe rolling-pin was descending on Gluck’s head; but, at the instant, the old gentleman interposed his conical cap, in which it crashed with a shock that shook the water out of it all over the room. What was very odd, the rolling-pin no sooner touched the cap, than it flew out of Schwartz’s hand, spinning like a straw in a high wind, and fell into the corner at the further end of the room.The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299824095461,"sku":"NP9780375714559","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375714559.jpg?v=1767742074","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-victorian-fairy-tale-book-isbn-9780375714559","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}