Joseph Jacobs

A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book - Celtic Fairy Tales, but this recordin…

A collection of traditional English fairy tales. (description by Joy Chan)

This book is a fine collection of Indian fairy tales, some are folklore, some are from the Jataka tales, and some from panchatantra. (Summar…

Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, …

"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…

More fairy tales from the early days of the British Isles, collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. - Summary by bookworm360

This book was first published in 1897. It's a short work, but it encompasses a vast subject—nothing less than determining the detailed geogr…

From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…