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The Fairies in Tradition and Literature (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Fairies in Tradition and Literature (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Routledge Classics
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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 ...
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