English Fairy Tales

About this eBook

Author

Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929

Credits

E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Fairy tales -- England

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17034

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17034

Release Date

November 9, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ENGLISH FAIRY TALES — RETOLD BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL — Illustrated by Arthur Rackham — First published by Macmillan & Co. 1918 — Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at home (page 190.) — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — IN COLOUR — IN TEXT
2. 2.ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND
3. 3.THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS — "Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!"
4. 4.TOM-TIT-TOT
5. 5.THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX
6. 6.TATTERCOATS — Tattercoats dancing while the gooseherd pipes.
7. 7.THE THREE FEATHERS
8. 8.LAZY JACK — The giant Cormoran was the terror of all the country-side.
9. 9.JACK THE GIANT-KILLER — I — II — III — Taking the keys of the castle, Jack unlocked all the doors. — IV — V — VI — VII — The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the duke's daughter into a white hind.
10. 10.THE THREE SILLIES
11. 11.THE GOLDEN BALL
12. 12.THE TWO SISTERS — "Tree of mine! O Tree of mine! Have you seen my naughty little maid?"
13. 13.THE LAIDLY WORM
14. 14.TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE
15. 15.JACK AND THE BEANSTALK — "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman."
16. 16.THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY
17. 17.CATSKIN — She went along, and went along, and went along.
18. 18.THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
19. 19.NIX NAUGHT NOTHING
20. 20.MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR — And that is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar.
21. 21.THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB
22. 22.HENNY-PENNY — They thanked her and said good-bye, and she went on her journey.
23. 23.THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL
24. 24.MR. FOX — Many's the beating he had from the broomstick or the ladle.
25. 25.DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT — When Puss saw the rats and mice she didn't wait to be told.
26. 26.THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG
27. 27.THE WEE BANNOCK
28. 28.HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE
29. 29.THE BOGEY-BEAST — "Well!" she chuckled, "I am in luck!"
30. 30.LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD
31. 31.CHILDE ROWLAND
32. 32.THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM — OF BUYING OF SHEEP — OF HEDGING A CUCKOO — OF SENDING CHEESES — OF DROWNING EELS — OF SENDING RENT — OF COUNTING
33. 33.CAPORUSHES — She sate down and plaited herself an overall of rushes and a cap to match.
34. 34.THE BABES IN THE WOOD
35. 35.THE RED ETTIN
36. 36.THE FISH AND THE RING
37. 37.LAWKAMERCYME
38. 38.MASTER OF ALL MASTERS
39. 39.MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT
40. 40.THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK — The fisherman and his wife had no children, and they were just longing for a baby.
41. 41.THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END
42. 42.THE ROSE TREE

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