<p>This book offers a series of biographies of some of the most significant and best-known of the faery folk.&nbsp;A lot of faeries are extremely familiar to us being distinct characters with names and personalities.&nbsp;This <em>Who's Who</em> examines their origins characters and development from traditional folklore through to modern literature and the fine arts.&nbsp;In addition it describes some of the less well-known faery individuals as well as faery beings that are named but are really types or species.</p>