Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887 / 2008-06-04 00:00:00

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THE FAIRY BOOK.
THE BEST POPULAR STORIES SELECTED
AND RENDERED ANEW.

BY
MISS MULOCK
THE AUTHOR OF
"JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN."


NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
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DEDICATED
TO
LITTLE OLIVE.
* * * * *


PREFACE.

A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology
for a worthless one; but, in the present instance, a few explanatory
words seem necessary.
This is meant to be the best collection attainable of that delight of
all children, and of many grown people who retain the child-heart
still--the old-fashioned, time-honored classic Fairy-tale. It has been
compiled from all sources--far-off and familiar; when familiar, the
stories have been traced with care to their original form, which, if
foreign, has been retranslated, condensed, and in any other needful
way made suitable for modern British children.
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