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![]() Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Ireland in one special volume. Genres Classics Mythology Fantasy Fiction Short Stories Fairy Tales Poetry.more. Read these tales of frightening supernatural horrors, brave folk heroes, and everyday people clever enough to outwith the devil, and you'll agree that they could only take place on Irish soil. Read these tales of frightening supernatural horrors, brave folk heroes, and everyday people clever enough to outwith the devil, and you'll agree that they could only take place on Irish soil. The stories in this volume feature a wide variety of fantastic beings, including ghosts, witches, fairies, and changelings, but several feature creatures that are virtually exclusive to Ireland: the banshee, the merrow, the pooka, and the leprechaun. ![]() To those who told and listened to them, they expressed something fundamental about Irish culture and the Irish way of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are stories that passed down through the ages virtually unaltered in their telling. The tales collected for Irish Fairy and Folk Tales all are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back much further, to a time when they were part of a centuries-old oral tradition of storytelling and had yet to be committed to the printed page. ![]()
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