Alan Garner's Book Of British Fairy Tales
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780001840454 (0001840452)
ASIN: 0001840452
Publish date: 1984
Publisher: Delacorte
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Garner's stated goal here was to accurately give the 'feel' of an orally told tale to a reading audience. Most of the stories here are adapted from 19th-century collections of folklore, which, I believe, in many cases transcribed, word-for-word, what rural British tale-tellers said.Garner says that ...