Joseph Jacobs

Excerpt: "Ever since-almost exactly a hundred years ago-the Grimms produced their Fairy Tale Book, folk-lorists have been engaged in making similar collections for all the other countries of Europe, outside Germany, till there is scarcely a nook or a corner in the whole continent that has not been ransacked for these products of the popular fancy. The Grimms themselves and most of their followers have pointed out the similarity or, one might even...

The 1892 collection "Celtic Fairy Tales" is a beautiful anthology which highlights Celtic children's literature. Folklorist Joseph Jacobs spent his entire career gathering a host of fairy tales known in the English language and compiling them into a number of anthologies. Celtic Fairy Tales includes popular stories such as "Conall Yellowclaw," "The Sea-Maiden," and "Battle of the Birds," all of which were gathered straight from oral tradition by Jacobs...

Balthasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) assumed his final vows of the Jesuits in 1635, having been raised by his uncle, a priest, and studying theology in Zaragoza, Spain. Gracián became quite famous as a preacher, and wrote a number of literary works concerning politics, practical advice for life, and philosophy. Today he is known as the most representative writer of the Spanish baroque style called Conceptismo (Conceptism), a literary style characterized...

A young man believes his sweetheart and her family are the three silliest people in the world until he meets three others who are even sillier.

Retells the traditional English tale of how poor, neglected Tattercoats comes to marry the Prince.

Adaptations of eighty-two of Aesop's best known fables. Includesa brief history of the fables.

A young man believes his sweetheart and her family are the three silliest people in the world until he meets three others who are even sillier.