The Heroes, Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Author:
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator:
Charles Kingsley
Publication:
1856 by Macmillan & Co. LTD (London)
Genre:
Anthology, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, Mythology
Pages:
205
Current state:
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Charles Kingsley's most completely successful works is The Heroes, written in 1856. This is a retelling for his own children of three of the greatest of the ancient Greek legends, and it is undoubtedly the finest book of its kind published in the nineteenth century, and still unsurpassed.
The stories concern the legends of Perseus, the Argonauts and Theseus.
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Charles Kingsley
1819 - 1875British
Charles Kingsley, novelist and historian, was born on 12th June 1819 at Holne, on the edge of Dartmoor. His childhood was divided between Barnack in... See more
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The Heroes
Reprinted in 2020 by Living Book Press
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The Heroes 
Reprinted in 2009 by Yesterday's Classics
Reprint illustrated by T. Heath Robinson
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From the Copyright page: "This is an unabridged republication of the text originally published by Macmillan and Company in 1894. The illustrations by T.H. Robinson are from an edition published by Ernest Nister."
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Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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