WATKINS BOOK OF ENGLISH FOLKTALES by Neil Philip

by: Neil Philip

This is a treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries and contained within an atmospheric hardback. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art - when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o'-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale's journey from mouth to page, and the changes that have happened to them on the way. They rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their verbal daring. They are also a depository of a lot of old beliefs and previously forgotten traditions.

400pp, 234 x 153 mm, Hardback, 2022, RRP £14.99

SKU:320358
ISBN:9781786787095

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