
Silver Magic
The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson
- 204 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), and Red Magic (1930) – offers a combination of classic fairy tales, alongside lesser known, global and diverse tales.
Silver Magic contains classic fairy tales including "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," and Hawthorne's "The Miraculous Pitcher," as well as several anonymous and previously undiscovered tales such as "Lohengrin." It was Romer Wilson's intention to combine the familiar with the unknown, and to introduce authors and cultures from a variety of countries. As a researcher, Wilson uncovered a remarkable amount of stories from other countries that remain unknown today. This collection gives voice to unique and intriguing tales that inspire children to have a better understanding of how people and their stories are alike despite major differences.
Through his Preface and commentary, Jack Zipes shows how all three books are a means to bring people together in the name of peace and justice. These books will, therefore, be of interest to anyone researching or studying fairy tales, folklore and children's literature, as well as global or comparative literature and social justice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: On Giants and Dwarfs
- The Miraculous Pitcher
- Simmerwater: A Yorkshire Philemon
- The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
- The Werewolf
- Eight Tales from Gesta Romanorum
- The Goose-Girl at the Well
- Clever Alice
- Lohengrin
- The Master Thief
- Boots Who Had an Eating Match with the Troll
- How the Sea Became Salt
- Two Stories about Finn MacCool
- Davy Hanlan
- Some Nonsense
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper
- The Yellow Dwarf
- Beauty and the Beast
- Bibliography