Over two thousand years separate Aesop's Fables and the Household Tales of the Grimm brothers, but the appeal of their stories remains as strong today as ever. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were for their very first audience. The stories about Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and the Frog Prince stimulate the imagination and the heart and linger at the back of our minds for a lifetime. They are funny, disturbing, wise and compassionate; they speak of joy and terror, happiness and revenge, love and violence. This attractive two-book pack brings together stories that make up a compendium of secular wisdom.
- ISBN10 1905716958
- ISBN13 9781905716951
- Publish Date 1 October 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 July 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Collector's Library
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 644
- Language English