The Lilac Fairy Book Classic Fairy Tales

The Lilac Fairy Book - 33 Classic Tales from Caryns Castle - Includes A Lost Paradise, The Three Crowns, A Fish Story and numerous more. **** Our stories are almost all old, some from Ireland, before that island was as celebrated for her wrongs as for her verdure; some from Asia, made, I dare say, before the Aryan invasion; some from Moydart, Knoydart, Morar and Ardnamurchan, where the sea streams run like great clear rivers and the saw-edged hills areblue,andmenrememberPrince Charlie. Some are from Portugal, where the golden fruits grow in the Garden of the Hesperides; and some are from wild Wales, and were told at Arthurs Court; and others come from the firesides of the kinsmen of the Welsh, the Bretons. There are as well modern tales by a learned Scandinavian named Topelius.