The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales This Mammoth anthology contains classic fairy tales in their original and wonderful forms, the best modern renditions of old favorites (many never before published in books), and new stories specially written for this volume. If you think fairy tales have been relegated forever to the nursery in vapid, bowdlerized versions of the original stories, your mind will be changed by editor Mike Ashley's selection from such enchanting storytellers as Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Kenneth Grahame, and A. A. Milne; literary greats like Dickens, Thackeray, and Oscar Wilde; and modern writers like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Contemporary fantasists Angela Carter, Tanith Lee, and others offer further delights with their imaginative, distinctly modern takes on the old tales.Illustrated throughout with drawings specially commissioned for this book, The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales also contains an introduction chronicling the history of the fairy ale that puts these magical stories in their proper literary context. CONTENT: 1. Introduction: Tales of Wonder and Adventure by Mike Ashley 2. A Bag of Poetry by Lawrence Schimel 3. Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont 4. The Bells of Carillon-Land by E. Nesbit 5. The Birthday Battle by Louise Cooper 6. Blue Roses by Netta Syrett 7. The Boy Who Plaited Manes by Nancy Springer 8. The Castle by George MacDonald 9. Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault 10. The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth by Lord Dunsany 11. The Cloak of Friendship by Laurence Housman 12. The Cotton-Wool Princess by Luigi Capuani 13. The Drawing School by J. Muñez Escomez 14. The Dutch Cheese by Walter de la Mare 15. The Elves by Ludwig Tieck 16. The Enchanted Watch by Charles Deulin 17. The Enchanted Whistle by Alexandre Dumas 18. The Fairy Gift by Charlotte Brontë 19. The Forest Fairy by Lord Brabourne 20. The Forest of Dreams by Lawrence Schimel 21. The Girl Who Loved the Wind by Jane Yolen 22. The Glass Dog by L. Frank Baum 23. The Green Bird by Laurence Housman 24. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 25. How Wry-Face Played a Trick on One-Eye by Agnes G. Herbertson 26. Jack and the Beanstalk by Anonymous 27. The Knave and the Fool by Juliana H. Ewing 28. Little Red Riding Hood by Laura Valentine 29. Little Snowdrop; or, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by The Brothers Grimm 30. The Mad-Hatter’s Tea Party by Lewis Carroll 31. The Mistreated Fellow by Jessica Amanda Salmonson 32. Mother-of-All by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre 33. The Necklace of Tears by Mrs. Egerton Eastwick 34. The Night the Stars by Joan Aiken 35. Old Pipes and the Dryad by Frank R. Stockton 36. The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Charles Marelles 37. The Pot of Gold by Horace E. Scudder 38. Princess Crystal; or, the Hidden Treasure by Isabel Bellerby 39. Princess Sansu by Tanith Lee 40. The Rat that Could Speak by Charles Dickens 41. Rumpelstiltskin by The Brothers Grimm 42. The Seekers by H. E. Bates 43. The Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple by Edward Lear 44. The Seven Ravens by Ludwig Bechstein 45. Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault 46. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen 47. The Story of Nick by Christina Rossetti 48. The Three Bears by Sarah Baker 49. The Three Goats Named Bruse; or, The Three Billy-Goats Gruff by Peter Asbjörnsen & Jörgen Moe 50. The Three Tasks by Geraldine Elliot 51. The Touchstone by Robert Louis Stevenson 52. Touk's House by Robin McKinley 53. The Tree's Wife by Jane Yolen 54. The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen 55. The Ugly Unicorn by Jessica Amanda Salmonson 56. 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