A Fairy Tale Reader: A Collection of Story, Lore and Vision

by John Matthews (Chosen by, Editor), Caitlín Matthews (Chosen by, Editor), R.J. Stewart (Introduction)

Genres: Fairy Tales

304 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1993

About the author

John Matthews is an historian, folklorist and author. He has been a full time writer since 1980 and has produced over ninety books on the Arthurian Legends and Grail Studies, as well as short stories and a volume of poetry. He has devoted much of the past thirty years to the study of Arthurian Traditions and myth in general. His best known and most widely read works are ‘Pirates’ (Carlton/Atheneum), No 1 children’s book on the New York Times Review best-seller list for 22 weeks in 2006, ‘The Grail, Quest for Eternal Life’ (Thames & Hudson, 1981) ‘The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom’ (Element, 1994) and ‘The Winter Solstice’ (Quest Books, 1999) which won the Benjamin Franklin Award for that year. His book ‘Celtic Warrior Chiefs’ was a New York Public Library recommended title for young people.

Reviews

[Kayla]

You may like this if you enjoy: Fairytales, Studying recurring themes in Myths and Folklore

Great companion reader for English majors

[Madigan]

DNF 100 pages in (I have since figured out how to get this info from the source)

[Miriam]

Mythology is psychology, misread as cosmology, history, and biography. page 87(from the section "The Work of the Brothers Grimm" by Joseph Campbell)