{"product_id":"fairy-tellers-journey-secret-history-fairy-tales-nicholas-jubber-pb-2023","title":"The Fairy Tellers - a Journey into the Secret History Fairy Tales","description":"\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\"The general reader is unlikely to have met Mr. Jubber’s other subjects and may be amazed to learn the degree to which these unsung men and women have shaped the fairy-tale canon, an enthusiastic and enjoyable book—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e‘A carnival of a book, rigorously researched and jostling with life’\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\"\u003e—Amy Jeffs, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif italic font-size:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" font-style:=\"\"\u003eStoryland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\"\u003eWho were the Fairy Tellers?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIn this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Baba Yaga’.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFrom the Middle Ages to the birth of modern children’s literature, they include a German apothecary’s daughter, a Syrian youth running away from a career in the souk and a Russian dissident embroiled in a plot to kill the tsar.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFollowing these and other unlikely protagonists, we travel from the steaming cities of Italy and the Levant, under the dark branches of the Black Forest, deep into the tundra of Siberia and across the snowy fells of Lapland. In the process, we discover a fresh perspective on some of our most frequently told stories. Filled with adventure, tragedy and real-world magic, this bewitching book uncovers the stranger lives behind the strangest of tales.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46087563280581,"sku":"OF550426056","price":21.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/57_396737f6-d2b6-42cf-8a0a-6ebe588856bd.jpg?v=1776210829","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/fairy-tellers-journey-secret-history-fairy-tales-nicholas-jubber-pb-2023","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}