English Fairy Tales

One of the great nineteenth-century folklorists, Joseph Jacobs collected stories from oral sources and made scholarly notes on their origin, but he deliberately recorded them in a plain and direct style which he thought suitable for children and which makes them 'supremely tellable'.

Unul dintre marii folcloristi ai secolului al XIX-lea, Joseph Jacobs a adunat povesti din surse orale si a facut notite academice despre originea lor, dar le-a inregistrat in mod deliberat intr-un stil simplu si direct, pe care l-a considerat potrivit pentru copii si care le face ,,extrem de povestite".