Old Hungarian Fairy Tales was edited and translated from the Hungarian by Baroness Orczy (creator of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series), in 1895.
The illustrations in the book were provided by her husband, Montagu Barstow, whom she married in 1894.
Stories include:
- Uletka and the White Lizard
- The Suitors of the Fire Fly
- The Twin Hunchbacks
- Mr Cuttlefish's Love Story
- Forget-me-not
- The Enchanted cat
- The Wishing Skin and
- That's Not True
Famous quotes containing the words fairy tales, fairy and/or tales:
“A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child’s questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won’t be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child’s life.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)