Fairies in Tradition and Literature

<p>Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies and in this book she articulated for the first time the history of that world in tradition and literature. </p><p>From every period and every country poets and storytellers have described a magical world inhabited by elfin spirits. Capricious and vengeful or beautiful and generous they've held us in thrall for generations. And on a summer's morn as the dew dries softly on the grass if you kneel and look under a toadstool well ...</p>