Bartleby Weekly: August 10, 2000

Bartleby Weekly

Volume I, Issue 16. August 10, 2000

Bartleby.com Publishes Illustrated Fairy Tales

In The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales, the venerable Sir Arthur Quiller Couch retells four classic fairy tales that have brought delight to children for ages. Sir Arthur made no qualms about changing the original stories, which he justified by appealing to “a voice more authoritative than the original author . . . the united voices of many thousands of children, his audience and best critics.” Bartleby.com's publication of this work includes the magnificent illustrations from the original edition.

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