The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

Project Gutenberg's The Fairy Book, by Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Author: Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock) Release Date: November 7, 2006 [EBook #19734] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FAIRY BOOK *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE FAIRY BOOK. THE BEST POPULAR STORIES SELECTED AND RENDERED ANEW. BY MISS MULOCK THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." NEW YORK AND LONDON: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. DEDICATED TO LITTLE OLIVE. [vii]PREFACE. preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one; but, in the present instance, a few explanatory words seem necessary. This is meant to be the best collection attainable of that delight of all children, and of many grown people who retain the child- heart still—the old-fashioned, time-honored classic Fairy-tale.