Irish Fairy Tales
Book Description
This illustrated Kindle version of Irish Fairy Tales (London, 1920) is beautifully formatted and optimized for a great reading experience:
o Includes all 16 Arthur Rackham color plates in dazzling detail.
o Reproduces all line drawings in the original 1920 edition.
o All ten stories with text formatted for easy reading.
o Linked Table of Contents and List of Illustrations.
o Eas...
MoreThis illustrated Kindle version of Irish Fairy Tales (London, 1920) is beautifully formatted and optimized for a great reading experience:
o Includes all 16 Arthur Rackham color plates in dazzling detail.
o Reproduces all line drawings in the original 1920 edition.
o All ten stories with text formatted for easy reading.
o Linked Table of Contents and List of Illustrations.
o Easy navigation from story-to-story with the 5-way controller
The book is a timeless collection of ten tales from Irish folklore, retold by James Stephens (February 9, 1882-December 26, 1950), a noteworthy Irish poet and author. The marvelous illustrations are by Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867-September 6, 1939).
All of the color plates and line drawings have been individually scanned from the first print edition (London, MacMillan and Company, 1920). Each image was manually sized using to precisely fit the Kindle viewing area and preserve image quality using the advanced algorithms of Perfect Photo Suite software.
Besides his humorous and beautifully-written versions of Irish myths and fairy tales, Stephens wrote three novels that sweep willing readers into the realm of Faery - The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight, and Demi-Gods. His most popular work is The Crock of Gold, which has been reprinted many times since 1912.
And what of Faery? It's hard to pin down as a place, a mythical realm, or state of mind. In the story Carl of the Drab Coat, we get an explanation, if not something on which to hang our hat:
In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years. But when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and we seem to have had a dream or seen a vision, although we have verily been in Faery.
Irish Fairy Tales includes the following stories:
The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill
The Boyhood of Fionn
The Birth of Bran
Oisin's Mother
The Wooing of Becfola
The Little Brawl at Allen
The Carl of the Drab Coat
The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran
Becuma of the White Skin
Mongan's Frenzy
Enjoy Irish Fairy Tales on Kindle for PC or another device that displays color as well as any Kindle device. This Kindle edition was produced by Webbish Books (webbishbooks.com).
| Publisher | Webbish Books |
| Binding | Kindle Edition (52 editions) |
| Reading Level | Uncategorized
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| # of Pages | 310 |
| ISBN-10 | B003ODI65G |
| Publication Date | 05/27/2010 |
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