At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
by:
Diane Purkiss (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780814766835 (0814766838)
ASIN: 0814766838
Publish date: 2001-01-01
Publisher: NYU Press
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Writing,
Reference,
Language,
Fairies,
Fairy Tales,
Research,
Mythology,
Folklore,
Supernatural
Purportedly a history of fairy tales, this book serves neither as a history nor a particularly good resource about legends. I had to give up on this after this passage,"In later stories, Peter [Pan:] is joined by boys who have fallen out of their perambulators, their suspiciously womblike perambula...
Dear Book,It's not you, it's me. No, seriously, don't start crying and hitting me. I should know better than to take up with non-fiction when I know that's it's fiction that I really love. Admittedly, I love fiction in this incredibly slutty way, and even fiction books aren't safe from my wandering ...
Purkiss' book is a very good and easily accessible look at how society views fairies and other little folk. She starts, mostly, in the Middle Ages and works her way up to the present day, including a quick look at how fan fiction uses fairy folk. She also mixes in history, dealing with Scottish wi...
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