Joseph Jacobs

About The Author

Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) was an Australian-born writer who is best remembered for his collections of folklore. Jacobs spent much of his life studying literature, and he was an advocate against antisemitism. Inspired by Charles Perrault, the Grimm brothers, and the romantic nationalism movement, he collected English fairy tales so that English children could read stories from their own heritage. Additionally, he published collections of Celtic and Indian tales.

Series by the Author

Books by Joseph Jacobs

The Essential European Fairy Tales Collection (Boxed Set)

Grimms' Fairy Tales; Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales; Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales; Charles Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose

By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Joseph Jacobs, Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Perrault
A hardcover boxed set!

This giftable boxed set contains four beautiful volumes of timeless fairy tale classics by Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Joseph Jacobs.
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Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales
By Joseph Jacobs
A selection of forty-two of Joseph Jacobs’s children’s classics from English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales are now available together in this beautiful collectible edition.
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