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The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

Author : Michael Patrick Hearn
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375714553
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Fairy Tale Book written by Michael Patrick Hearn and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here 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. Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old. Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Victorian Fairy Tales

Author : Michael Stuart Newton
Publisher : Oxford World's Classics
ISBN 13 : 019960195X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Fairy Tales written by Michael Stuart Newton and published by Oxford World's Classics. This book was released on 2015 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian fascination with fairyland is reflected in the literature of the period, which includes 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 Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, and Rudyard Kipling wrote fairy tales, and authors primarily famous for their work in the genre include George MacDonald, Juliana Ewing, Mary De Morgan, and Andrew Lang. This anthology brings together fourteen of the best stories, by these and other outstanding practitioners, to show the vibrancy and variety of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. The stories in this selection range from pure whimsy and romance to witty satire and darker, uncanny mystery. Paradox proves central to a form offered equally to children and adults. Fairyland is a dynamic and beguiling place, one that permits the most striking explorations of gender, suffering, love, family, and the travails of identity. Michael Newton's introduction and notes explore the literary marketplace in which these tales appeared, as well as the role they played in contemporary debates on scepticism and belief. The book also includes a selection of original illustrations by some of the masters of the field such as Richard Doyle, Arthur Hughes, and Walter Crane.

Forbidden Journeys

Author : Nina Auerbach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623052X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Journeys written by Nina Auerbach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “darkly entertaining” story collection is “a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" (United Press International). In the 1870s and 1880s, children’s literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one that was startlingly subversive for its time. While writers such as Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie wrote nostalgic tales that pined for lost youth, their female counterparts had more serious—at times unsettling—concerns. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling anti-fantasies in Speaking Likenesses, the stories collected here are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they are extraordinary works of fiction, full of strange delights for readers of any age. "The editors’ intelligent and fascinating commentary reveals ways in which these stories defied the Victorian patriarchy."—Allyson F. McGill, Belles Lettres

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192804472
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

Author : C. Sumpter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230227643
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale written by C. Sumpter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.

Late Victorian Gothic Tales

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199538875
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Late Victorian Gothic Tales written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities into his head...' The Victorian fin de siècle: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Victorians Undone

Author : Kathryn Hughes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142570X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Victorians Undone written by Kathryn Hughes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.

Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection

Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Wilkie Collins, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Fergus Hume, Arthur Morrison, M.P. Shiel, Baroness Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, and - inevitably - Arthur Conan Doyle. There are police detectives, gentleman amateurs, lady detectives (such as Catherine Pirkis's Loveday Brooke), professional consulting detectives, even an 'anti-detective' (Guy Boothby's Klimo, who devises a crime for himself to solve), and a psychic detective. The villains against whom they pit their wits are equally various, as are their crimes - from fraud and forgery to theft, abduction, and of course murder most foul, whether by poison, bullet, or blade. These stories offer hours of enjoyable escape for all lovers of crime fiction.

Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840220667
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories written by Rex Collings and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

Ventures Into Childland

Author : U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226448169
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Ventures Into Childland written by U. C. Knoepflmacher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up," Knoepflmacher probes deeply into the relations between adults and children, adults and their own childhood selves, and between the lives of beloved Victorian authors and their "children's tales."

Victorian Fairy Tales

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113674410X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Fairy Tales written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Author : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137342404
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories

Author : Mary de Morgan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752385626
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories written by Mary de Morgan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943910564
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume. "In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed, with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave, and awaiting the demon that animated it?" - John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" "Suddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Something--what, I knew not--seemed near, something nameless, but unutterably awful." - Ada Buisson, "The Ghost's Summons" "There was no longer any question what she was, or any thought of her being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions which had animated her while she lived." - Walter Scott, "The Tapestried Chamber"

Victorian Erotic Tales

Author : Shelly Klein
Publisher : Book Sales
ISBN 13 : 9780785804611
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Erotic Tales written by Shelly Klein and published by Book Sales. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian Age produced more erotic literature than almost any other period. This book brings together the most notorious of these underground tales.

Victorian Tales: The Twisted Tunnels

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408179296
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Tales: The Twisted Tunnels written by Terry Deary and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories... In a tunnel under the Thames, an urchin named Jenny and the young Queen Victoria dream of a wonderful new idea – underground trains! Twenty years later, the dream is finally becoming a reality. However, the construction of the Underground is tearing London apart and destroying the home of Jenny and her family. When Jenny comes face-to-face with the Queen again – will she tell her about the human cost of the 'dream'? Terry Deary's Victorian Tales explore the fascinating world of the Victorians, including many of the incredible achievements and breakthroughs that took place, through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period.

Victorian Tales: The Sea Monsters

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408180901
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Tales: The Sea Monsters written by Terry Deary and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories... Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western is the biggest, fasted steamship in the world. But the crew of the little Irish steamship Sirius are determined to beat Brunel's sea monster and be the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam alone. With fires causing havoc, Brunel getting injured and one ship running out of coal, which steam sea monster has the power to win this dangerous race? Terry Deary's Victorian Tales explore the fascinating world of the Victorians, including many of the incredible achievements and breakthroughs that took place, through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period.