by W.B. Yeats · Bounty · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753723234
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«Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland» is W.B. Yeats's collection of Irish fairy tales and folklore (Bounty, paperback, 416 pages, English).
W.B. Yeats brings together in this volume tales of nineteenth-century Irish folklore, drawn from oral tradition and the work of folklorists such as Lady Wilde and Douglas Hyde. Banshees, leprechauns, changelings and enchanted animals coexist with mortals in a rural Ireland recreated between the marvelous and the everyday.
The cover of this edition bears the title The Book of Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland; the collection was originally published in 1888 as Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
For those seeking traditional tales, Celtic mythology and classic Irish literature.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory, founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
