Tales before Narnia

[wellinghall]

A long time ago, I mentioned "Tales before Narnia", and several people asked about it. Well, the contents are:

"The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories: Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tale: 1845
"The Child and the Giant": Owen Barfield: Fairy Tale: 1930
"The Coloured Lands": GK Chesterton: short story: 1925
"The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton": Charles Dickens: excerpt: 1837
First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows: Kenneth Grahame: letters: written 1907, publ 1944
"The Wood That Time Forgot: The Enchanted Wood": Roger Lancelyn Green: excerpt: written 1945, unpublished
"The Dream Dust Factory": William Lindsay Gresham: short stories: 1947
"The Man Who Lived Backwards": Charles F Hall: short story: 1938
"The Wish House": Rudyard Kipling: short story: 1924
"Tegnér's Drapa": Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poem: 1849
"The Magic Mirror": George MacDonald: excerpt: 1858
"Faustos and Avaro": John Magowan: excerpt: 1772
A King's Lesson: William Morris: short story: 1886
Undine: Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Fairy Tale Novella: 1811
"The Aunt and Amabel": E Nesbit: short story: 1909
"The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque": Sir Walter Scott: Short Story: 1828
"The Waif Woman. A Cue - From a Saga": Robert Louis Stevenson: short story: written 1892, publ 1914
"Letters from Hell: Letter III": Valdemar Thisted: excerpt: 1866
"The Dragon's Visit": JRR Tolkien: poem: 1937
"Et in Sempiternum Pereant" (And May They be Forever Damned): Charles Williams: short story: 1935

More information here: http://www.sfsite.com/04b/na270.htm

Comments

[malva-hawthorn.livejournal.com]

It seems a peculiar collection - children's stories seem to be mixed up with several that definitely aren't - Kipling's The Wish House in particular I find not only unpleasantly creepy but also adult in theme and subject-matter.
Is it in the same series as the "Tales before Tolkien" that came out about 10 year's ago? That, too, was a peculiar mixture.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a follow-up to Tales Before Tolkien.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

That looks very interesting!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You would be welcome to borrow it.