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Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves

Jack Zipes

First published 1987
Publisher Methuen
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Richard Doyle (1824-1883)
Pages xxix+381
Price £18.95
ISBN 041642080X

  • Presents 22 stories that were first published 1839 to 1902.
  • A collection of fairy tales by Victorian writers, with illustrations from the same period.
  • Seems to be an expanded version of the 1984 Aufstand der Elfen: Phantastische Erzählungen aus dem viktorianischen England, which published nine of the shortfiction pieces.
  • Contents • ix, Note on the Illustrations • xi, Preface • xiii, Introduction • (stories numbered 1 to 22, from page 1) • 372, Select Bibliography --from the 2013 Routledge edition, ISBN 113674410X, pp. [vii]-viii (viewed as preview at Google Books 2018-09-29) "Illustrations", pp. [ix]-x, lists the illustrator name and year for 18 of the 22 stories, in chronological sequence from 1851 to 1902.

Apparent first edition. Assumed first printing. Price from Locus. US price $25.00.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Uncle David's Nonsensical Story About Giants and Fairies Catherine Sinclair Short Story
13 The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers John Ruskin Novelette
37 Cinderella and the Glass Slipper George Cruikshank Short Story
59 Heinrich; or, The Love of Gold Alfred Crowquill Short Story
73 Bruno's Revenge Lewis Carroll Short Story
89 The Magic Fishbone Charles Dickens Short Story
101 Cinderella Anne Isabella Ritchie Novelette
127 The Ogre Courting Juliana Horatia Ewing Short Story
135 The Prince's Dream Jean Ingelow Short Story
145 Charlie Among the Elves Edward H. Knatchbull-Hugessen Short Story
163 A Toy Princess Mary de Morgan Short Story
175 The Day Boy and the Night Girl George MacDonald Novelette
209 All My Doing; or Red Riding-Hood Over Again Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton Novelette
249 The Princess Nobody Andrew Lang Short Story
263 The Story of a King's Daughter Mary Louisa Molesworth Novelette
285 The Happy Prince Oscar Wilde Short Story
295 Wooden Tony Lucy Lane Clifford Short Story
307 The Potted Princess Rudyard Kipling Short Story
317 The Rooted Lover Laurence Housman Short Story
327 The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame Novelette
351 The Last of the Dragons Edith Nesbit Short Story
359 The Spell of the Magician's Daughter Evelyn Sharp Short Story
xi Preface (Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves) Jack Zipes Essay
xiii Introduction (Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves) Jack Zipes Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves Cover 1991 Routledge Trade Paperback Anthology xxix+381