В сборник литературных сказок английских писателей вошли весёлые сказки в стихах Эдварда Лира «Прогулка верхом» в переводе С. Я. Маршака, шуточная история Элеонор Фарджон «Хочу Луну!», парадоксальные сказки Дональда Биссета, загадочная сказочная повесть Джеймса Барри «Питер Пэн», героическая сказка Джон Руэла Рональда Толкиена «Хоббит, или Туда и обратно».
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.