Victorian Fairy Tales

by Michael Newton, Hans Christian Andersen, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Book Overview

'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...'

The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central to the nineteenth-century canon such as W. M. Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, and Rudyard Kipling wrote fairy tales,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198737599
• ISBN13: 9780198737599
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7