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Arthur Rackham's artworks bring a distinctive vein of dark humour to the many classic works he graced in the Golden Age of Illustration. His energetic, dense creations are perfectly suited to the powerful tales of the early Celts, and the later stories of an Ireland of mighty hearths, dreaming of battlefield glory, ancient gods and mystical isles. SELLING POINTS: . Gold foiled, embossed cover, printed on silver paper, matt laminated. . A gorgeous gift edition packed with the best romance stories. . Classic tales, brought together for a satisfying read. . Illuminating foreword. . Another title in a series of beautiful editions of classic story collections for the modern reader.

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D.L. Ashliman, an emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh, taught folklore, mythology, German, and comparative literature at that institution for thirty-three years. He also served as guest professor at the University of Augsburg in Germany. He is the editor of the Aesop’s Fables volume in the Barnes and Noble Classics series. His book-length publications include two volumes in the Folklore Handbooks series of Greenwood Press: Folk and Fairy Tales (2004) and Fairy Lore (2005). He authored numerous articles in the four-volume encyclopedia Folktales and Fairy Tales (Greenwood Press, 2016). Created and developed at Flame Tree Publishing, an independent publisher of nearly 30 years. Flame Tree Studio is our creative hub bringing people, ideas and techniques together to offer collections of new and classic stories that show the breadth of imaginative writing, from early myth to modern times.

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