The Victorian Fairytale Book - Brossura

Hearn, Michael Patrick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679732586 ISBN 13: 9780679732587

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 1990

Riassunto

Here is a truly magical book. It brings together the best and best-loved stories from the Golden Age of the fairy tale, and reunites them with delightful illustrations from their original editions. Stories and poems by Dickens, Thackeray, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats, and many others are paired with pictures by some of the most celebrated illustrators of the Victorian era, including Arthur Rackham, Arthur Hughes, Max field Parrish, Walter Crane, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This book will delight adults and children alike.

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"Hearn seems to have made...a golden cord out of this beautifully planned book and strung his selections upon it like so many gleaming beads, to dazzle and delight." -- *front page, Washington Post Book World

"Hearn is clearly a connoisseur." -- Voice Literary Supplement

"The language is elegant and lush, shot through with starlight and rainbows."

-- Philadelphia Inquirer

"This is a treasure chest....Hearn has collected these gems with a connoisseurs eye, and chosen the most marvelous illustrations to go with them."

-- Lloyd Alexander, author of The Prydain Chronicles

"What a delight to have Michael Patrick Hearn's book."

-- Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time

Product Description:

Book by Hearn Michael Patrick

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679732586
• ISBN 13: 9780679732587
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416