Description
| Product ID: | 9780140437379 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Complete Fairy Tales |
| Authors: | Author: George MacDonald, U.C. Knoepflmacher |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Brings together eleven of the author's shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". This title includes fairy stories that range from traditional fantasy - good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dream worlds. George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children''s stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2000-02-24 |