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Index
Title page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of the Literary Fairy Tale
Prologue
Rumpel-Stilts-kin
The Princess and the Peas
Victorian Fairy Tales
The Story of the Three Bears
The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers
Chapter I How The Agricultural System Of The Black Brothers Was Interfered With By South-West Wind, Esquire
Chapter II Of The Proceedings Of The Three Brothers After The Visit Of South-West Wind, Esquire; And How Little Gluck Had An Interview With The King Of The Golden Rive
Chapter III How Mr. Hans Set Off On An Expedition To The Golden River, And How He Prospered Therein
Chapter IV How Mr. Schwartz Set Off On An Expedition To The Golden River, And How He Prospered Therein
Chapter V How Little Gluck Set Off On An Expedition To The Golden River, And How He Prospered Therein; With Other Matters Of Interes
The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo
Prelude
I shows how the royal family sate down to breakfast
II How King Valoroso Got The Crown, And Prince Giglio Went Without
III Tells Who The Fairy Blackstick Was, And Who Were Ever So Many Grand Personages Besides
IV How Blackstick Was Not Asked To The Princess Angelica’S Christening
V How Princess Angelica Took A Little Maid
VI How Prince Giglio Behaved Himself
VII How Giglio And Angelica Had A Quarrel
VIII How Gruffanuff Picked The Fairy Ring Up, And Prince Bulbo Came To Court
IX How Betsinda Got The Warming-Pan
X How King Valoroso Was In A Dreadful Passion
XI What Gruffanuff Did To Giglio And Betsinda
XII How Betsinda Fled, And What Became Of Her
XIII How Queen Rosalba Came To The Castle Of The Bold Count Hogginarmo*
XIV What Became Of Giglio
XV We Return To Rosalba
XVI How Hedzoff Rode Back Again To King Giglio
XVII How A Tremendous Battle Took Place, And Who Won It
XVIII How They All Journeyed Back To The Capital
XIX And Now We Come To The Last Scene In The Pantomime
The Golden Key
The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
The Wanderings of Arasmon
The First Wife’s Wedding-Ring
The Selfish Giant
Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted
Prince Prigio
Chapter I how the fairies were not invited to court
Chapter II prince prigio and his family
Chapter III about the firedrake
Chapter IV how prince prigio was deserted by everybody
Chapter V what prince prigio found in the garret
Chapter VI what happened to prince prigio in town
Chapter VII the prince falls in love
Chapter VIII the prince is puzzled
Chapter IX the prince and the firedrake
Chapter X the prince and the remora
Chapter XI The Battle
Chapter XII A Terrible Misfortune
Chapter XIII surprises
Chapter XIV the king explains
Chapter XV the king’s cheque
Chapter XVI a melancholy chapter
Chapter XVII the black cat and the brethren!
Chapter XVIII The Very Last
The Queen Who Flew
The Story of the Herons
The Reluctant Dragon
Melisande
Dymchurch Flit
Dymchurch Flit
Appendix what is a fairy tale?
‘Introduction’ to the Grimm Brothers, German Popular Stories (1869)
‘Preface’ to Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales (1888)
‘The Fantastic Imagination’ (1895)
‘Introduction’ to Gammer Grethel’s Fairy Tales (1905)
Explanatory Notes
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Rumpel-Stilts-kin
Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Peas
Robert Southey, The Story of the Three Bears
John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring
George Macdonald, The Golden Key
Dinah Mulock Craik, The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak
Mary De Morgan, The Wanderings of Arasmon
Juliana HoratiA Ewing, The First Wife’s Wedding-Ring
Oscar Wilde, The Selfish Giant
Andrew Lang, Prince Prigio
Ford Madox Ford, The Queen Who Flew
Laurence Housman, The Story of the Herons
Kenneth Grahame, The Reluctant Dragon
E. Nesbit, Melisande
Rudyard Kipling, Dymchurch Flit
Appendix
John Ruskin, ‘Introduction’ to German Popular Tales (1869)
Juliana Horatia Ewing, ‘Preface’ to Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales (1888)
George Macdonald, ‘The Fantastic Imagination’ (1895)
Laurence Housman, ‘Introduction’ to Gammer Grethel’s Fairy Tales (1905)
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