Book of Fairy Tales

Sabine Baring-Gould, the Victorian scholar and folklorist, gathered these tales from across Europe and beyond, retelling them for a new generation of readers. Here you'll find the beloved classics - Cinderella sweeping her way to royalty, Beauty taming the Beast with nothing but compassion - but also the strange, wild stories that Victorian readers loved just as much: the Yellow Dwarf who kidnaps a princess, the White Cat who is far more than she appears. These are not the sanitized versions of later Disney films but the original tales, with all their darkness and magic intact. Baring-Gould tells them with a scholar's precision and a storyteller's instinct for what endures. This is fairy tale as it was meant to be told: dark, luminous, and utterly unforgettable.