The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

Introduction Uncle David's Nonsensical Story about Giants and Fairies Catherine Sinclair Feathertop Nathaniel Hawthorne The King of the Golden River John Ruskin The Story of Fairyfoot Frances Browne The Light Princess George MacDonald The Magic Fishbone Charles Dickens A Toy Princess Mary de Morgan The New Mother Lucy Lane Clifford Good Luck Is Better Than Gold Juliana Horatia Ewing The Apple of Contentment Howard Pyle The Griffin and the Minor Canon Frank Stockton The Selfish Giant Oscar Wilde The Rooted Lover Laurence Housman The Song of the Morrow Robert Louis Stevenson The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame The Book of Beasts E. Nesbit The Queen of Quok L. F. Baum The Magic Shop H. G. Wells The Kith of the Elf-Folk Lord Dunsany The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher Carl Sandburg The Lovely Myfanwy Walter de la Mare The Troll T. H. White Gertrude's Child Richard Hughes The Unicorn in the Garden James Thurber Bluebeard's Daughter Sylvia Townsend Warner The Chaser John Collier The King of the Elves Philip K. Dick In the Family Naomi Mitchison The Jewbird Bernard Malamud Menaseh's Dream I. B. Singer The Glass Mountain Donald Barthelme Prince Amilec Tanith Lee Petronella Jay Williams The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick Joan Aiken The Courtship of Mr Lyon Angela Carter The Princess Who Stood On Her Own Two Feet Jeanne Desy The Wife's Story Ursula Le Guin The River Maid Jane Yolen The Porcelain Man Richard Kennedy Old Man Potchikoo Louise Erdrich Biographical Notes Publisher's Acknowledgments