The other stories included in here are "The Tale of Ivan", "Morraha", "The Story of Deirdre", "The Llanfabon Changeling", and "The Sea-Maiden". "Among the eight popular tales included here are 'The Fate of the Children of Lir,' a haunting narrative of four children turned into swans by a wicked stepmother 'The Shepherd of Myddvai," in which a beautiful woman, risen from the sea, orders her husband-to-be to observe certain rules and 'Beth Gellert,' a touching tale of a brave dog that dies after saving a child's life." So if you want to know what they're generally about, here it is: Not to mention, that story was extremely depressing for a "fairy tale".īut I guess the back of the book sums some of the stories up fairly well. I mean, the entirety of the story sounded more like a folk tale than a fairy tale. However, I did have a slight issue with one story, "Beth Gellbert". I read all of the stories here and found them all delightful-it felt like reading Grimm's Fairy Tales all over again. Joseph Jacobs also contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia. He went on to join The Folklore Society in England and became an editor of the society journal Folklore. He also edited editions of "The Thousand and One Nights". Jacobs was also an editor for journals and books on the subject of folklore which included editing the Fables of Bidpai and the Fables of Aesop, as well as articles on the migration of Jewish folklore. He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairytales in 1894 but also went on after and in between both books to publish fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, Celtic and Indian Fairytales which made him one of the most popular writers of fairytales for the English language. His work went on to popularize some of the worlds best known versions of English fairy tales including "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Goldilocks and the three bears", "The Three Little Pigs", "Jack the Giant Killer" and "The History of Tom Thumb".
Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English Folklore.
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