Books with author Joseph Jacobs

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How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)IllustratedAbout Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph JacobsCeltic Folk and Fairy Tales is written by the Australian born folklorist Joseph Jacobs.This is a solid book of Celtic fairy tales by Joseph Jacobs. Some of the stories are related to bronze-age epics, which means they have more parts in verse, and more named characters than typical fairy tales. Some stories are legends, such as the story of Deidre or that of Powel and Rhiannon, and some are cumulative tales, like "Munachar and Manachar", and some are just fairy lore like "Brewery of Eggshells" or "Elidore." Though you will find variants, such as "Fair, Brown, and Trembling", where, even though Trembling is persecuted by her own sisters and goes to church, not the ball, and her story continues even after she has a baby, she is still a Cinderella variant. Or "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree" which is a Snow White tale even if the queen questions a salmon, not a mirror, and instead of a huntsman letting her go in the woods, her father marries her off secretly to a foreign prince, who, indeed, is not the one who rescues her from her sleep.

Soils and national characteristics differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents the world over. So proved the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) with this now classic volume of 29 traditional tales from India, including some of the oldest recorded tales known."The Lion and the Crane," "How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam," "The Broken Pot," "The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal," "The Talkative Tortoise," "The Ass in the Lion's Skin," "Why the Fish Laughed," "Sun, Moon, and Wind Go Out to Dinner," "The Prince and the Fakir," and all the other stories make delightful reading or listening for youngsters who are tired of the same familiar old favorites. John D. Batten's nine full-page plates and his 37 other drawings are reproduced from the original edition.

"Joseph Jacobs Complete Fairy Tales" is a collection of all fairy tales collected by Joseph Jacobs. It includes all his 187 Tales from all his collections: English Fairy Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, More Celtic Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, European Fairy Tales.This title is properly formatted for your Kindle. It includes more than 380 original picture illustrations from the original stories.This title includes several clickable Tables of Contents for easy navigation. There is a mini table of contents as well as a complete table of contents that is linked to every single tale in this huge title. We have also included an NCX table of contents so that you can skip from one section to another using the 5-ways button of your Kindle (or its equivalent).All picture illustrations are original and follow the story line. Images has also been properly inserted into text so you do not end up having a lot of blank pages.To make it even easier for you, the start of each tale in this title has a link to the main table of contents or to the tales-section table of contents. It is just a click and you are there!Included in this title:English Fairy Tales (1890) 1. Tom Tit Tot 2. The Three Sillies 3. The Rose-Tree 4. The Old Woman and Her Pig 5. How Jack Went to Seek his Fortune 6. Mr Vinegar 7. Nix Nought Nothing 8. Jack Hannaford 9. Binnorie 10. Mouse and Mouser 11. Cap O' Rushes 12. Teeny-Tiny 13. Jack and the Beanstalk 14. The Story of the Three Little Pigs 15. The Master and His Pupil 16. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse 17. Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box 18. The Story of the Three Bears 19. Jack the Giant Killer 20. Henny-Penny 21. Childe Rowland 22. Molly Whuppie 23. The Red Ettin 24. The Golden Arm 25. The History of Tom Thumb 26. Mr Fox 27. Lazy Jack 28. Johnny-Cake 29. Earl Mar's Daughter 30. Mr Miacca 31. Whittington and His Cat 32. The Strange Visitor 33. The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh 34. The Cat and the Mouse 35. The Fish and the Ring 36. The Magpie's Nest 37. Kate Crackernuts 38. The Cauld Lad of Hilton 39. The Ass, The Table and the Stick 40. Fairy Ointment 41. The Well of the World's End 42. Master of all Masters 43. The Three Heads of the Well Celtic Fairy Tales (1892) 1. Connla and the Fairy Maiden 2. Guleesh 3. The Field of Boliauns 4. The Horned Women 5. Conall Yellowclaw 6. Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary 7. The Shepherd of Myddvai 8. The Sprightly Tailor 9. The Story of Deirdre 10. Munachar and Manachar 11. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree 12. King O'Toole and his Goose 13. The Wooing of Olwen 14. Jack and his Comrades 15. The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire 16. The Story-Teller at Fault 17. The Sea-Maiden 18. A Legend of Knockmany 19. Fair, Brown and Trembling 20. Jack and his Master 21. Beth Gellert 22. The Tale of Ivan 23. Andrew Coffey 24. The Battle of the Birds 25.Brewery of Eggshells 26. The Lad with the Goat-Skin More English Fairy Tales (1894)More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894)Indian Fairy Tales (1912)European Fairy Tales (1916)

WHO says that English folk have no fairy tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist.A quarter of the tales in this volume have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870, it was said equally of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. I am hoping that the present volume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, to me, care of the Publishers. The only reason, I imagine, why such tales have not hitherto been brought to light, is the lamentable gap between the governing and recording classes and the dumb working classes of this country--dumb to others but eloquent among themselves. It would be no unpatriotic task to help to bridge over this gulf, by giving a common fund of nursery literature to all classes of the English people, and, in any case, it can do no harm to add to the innocent gaiety of the nation.A word or two as to our title seems necessary. We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies. [For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes] The same remark applies to the collection of the Brothers Grimm and to all the other European collections, which contain exactly the same classes of tales as ours. Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for 'Fairy Tales', and this is the only name which they give to them. One cannot imagine a child saying, 'Tell us a folk-tale, nurse', or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'. As our book is intended for the little ones, we have indicated its contents by the name they use. The words 'Fairy Tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy', something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors. Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls. They serve to justify the title of Merrie England, which used to be given to this country of ours, and indicated unsuspected capacity for fun and humour among the unlettered classes. The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens our collection, is unequalled among all other folk-tales I am acquainted with, for its combined sense of humour and dramatic power.

The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination. The 26 stories of "Guleesh," "The Horned Women," "King O'Toole and His Goose," "The Sea-Maiden," "The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire," "The Lad with the Goat-Skin," the legendary "Dierdre," "Beth Gellert," and the other wonderful characters, the curses and hexes, the broken promises and granted wishes are accompanied by eight full-page plates, 37 drawings, and decorated capitals and endpieces that help make this book the charming one that generations of youngsters have proclaimed it to be.

Celtic Fairy Tales is the complete collection of 26 Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (from 1892). This kindle title is fully illustrated with more than 75 original pictures that follow the story line.Tales included:1. Connla and the Fairy Maiden2. Guleesh3. The Field of Boliauns4. The Horned Women5. Conall Yellowclaw6. Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary7. The Shepherd of Myddvai8. The Sprightly Tailor9. The Story of Deirdre10. Munachar and Manachar11. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree12. King O'Toole and his Goose13. The Wooing of Olwen14. Jack and his Comrades15. The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire16. The Story-Teller at Fault17. The Sea-Maiden18. A Legend of Knockmany19. Fair, Brown and Trembling20. Jack and his Master21. Beth Gellert22. The Tale of Ivan23. Andrew Coffey24. The Battle of the Birds25.Brewery of Eggshells26. The Lad with the Goat-Skin

Newtown, or Franchville, as 't was called of old, is a sleepy little town, as you all may know, upon the Solent shore. Sleepy as it is now, it was once noisy enough, and what made the noise was—rats. The place was so infested with them as to be scarce worth living in. There wasn't a barn or a corn-rick, a store-room or a cupboard, but they ate their way into it. Not a cheese but they gnawed it hollow, not a sugar puncheon but they cleared out. Why the very mead and beer in the barrels was not safe from them. They'd gnaw a hole in the top of the tun, and down would go one master rat's tail, and when he brought it up round would crowd all the friends and cousins, and each would have a suck at the tail.