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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is one of Katharine Briggs' most important works. This is a book written by arguably the most important and learned contemporary scholar in the genre. It deserves a place in every serious collection of fairy literature. Briggs has become the springboard for virtually every serious later author/study in the field. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds, to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author, Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies, and in this book she articulated for the first time the history of that world in tradition and literature. From every period and every country, poets and storytellers have described a magical world inhabited by elfin spirits. Capricious and vengeful, or beautiful and generous, they've held us in thrall for generations. And on a summer's morn, as the dew dries softly on the grass, if you kneel and look under a toadstool, well ... No library descriptions found. |
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