Old Wives' Fables

• Main Author: Laboulaye, Édouard
• Other Authors: With two hundred and twenty-five illustrations
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: George Routledge and Sons 1883
• Subjects: PN982 .L33 1883; Tangential; Norway; Yvon; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76102

Buying this book was a mistake, prompted by the title. This seems to be a collection of fairy stories or fairytales. I will quote from the archives of The Spectator: very lively stories, with, perhaps, just a touch of satire in them, which would be well away, for a fairy-tale ought to be absolutely...