Description: "All ages will enjoy Iona and Peter Opie's collection of The Classic Fairy Tales ."-- York County Coast Star "Their most enjoyable book to date...For your money you get three books in one, the stories, the essays and the ample illustrations."--illiam Golding, Listener "A beautiful book...both charming and scholarly"--Paul Barker, New Society "Some wand must have been waved over the Opies to give them the brilliant idea for this book...A volume of extraordinary fascination and richness."--Edwin Morgan "This is a book that everybody ought to possess."-- Richard Adams "It is not possible to praise too highly The Classic Fairy Tales , selected, introduced, and annotated by the peerless scholars of children's literature Iona and Peter Opie."-- The New Yorker "Contains 24 of the best-known fairy tales, dozens of absolutely entrancing illustrations, and a brilliant and extensive commentary by Iona and Peter Opie, the peerless anthologists who have given us the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes ."-- Washington Post

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