Tales of Kings and Queens ed. Herbert van Thal (Hamish Hamilton, May 1965, 175pp, hc, an)
A Book of Fairy Tales. Assembled as much for older readers as younger and seeking to retrieve the magic of the old world which seems to be symbolised in images of kings and queens.
- 7 · Introduction · Herbert van Thal · in
- 9 · The King Who Learned a Trade · Eleanor Brockett · ss (r)
- 15 · The Treachery of Morgan Le Fay · Barbara L. Picard · ex (r)
extract from Stories of King Arthur and His Knights (OUP, 1955).
- 25 · The Story of King Heracus and His Barber · Herbert van Thal · ss (r)
- 35 · The Three Gold Hairs of Old Vsevede · [unknown author] · ss (r); a traditional Serbian story.
- 47 · The Queen of Thule · J. B. Morton · ss (r)
- 55 · King Uggermugger · Cholmondeley Pennell · ss The Family Fairy Tales ed. Cholmondeley Pennell, John Camden Hotten, 1864
- 71 · The Blue Bird · Mrs. Craik · ss 1875
- 89 · The Story of King Frost · Andrew Lang · ss The Yellow Fairy Book ed. Andrew Lang, Longman, 1894
- 95 · King Roughbeard · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823
- 103 · The Golden Bees of Mythia · Horace Murreigh · ss The Strand Magazine May 1895
- 113 · Alice Meets the Red Queen · Lewis Carroll · ex from Through the Looking Glass, Macmillan, 1871
- 123 · The Nightingale · Hans Christian Andersen · ss 1846
translated from the Danish (“Nattergalen”, Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Første Samling, C.A. Reitzel, 1843).
- 135 · The King of the Peacocks · Comtesse d’Aulnoy · nv (r)
translated from the French (Contes Nouvelles ou les Fées à la Mode, 1698).
- 153 · The Emperor’s New Clothes · Hans Christian Andersen · ss (r)
translated from the Danish (“Kejserens nye Klæder”, Eventyr, Fortalte for Børn. Første Samling, Tredie Hefte, C.A. Reitzel, 1837).
- 161 · The Fooling of King Alexander · Mervyn Skipper · ss (r)
- 165 · The Three Clever Kings · Mary De Morgan · ss The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde by Mary de Morgan, Macmillan & Co., 1886
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