A review by authoraugust
Traditional Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

4.0

When I bought my Kindle, I spent the next couple of weeks downloading as many free books as I could. Of course I got tons of fairy tale, myth, and legend books, and in honor of my man, I started with the Irish fairy tales. I was thinking this would be a quick, perhaps even boring, skim and would maybe give me a few pieces of useful material for short stories or even novels. Boy, was I wrong. I laughed out loud at the cleverness of the tales, and whether that's Stephens's translation or character wrapped up in the ancient stories themselves (and I rather think it was the latter, assisted by the former), it was delightful. I highlighted all over the place and am positive I will be drawing names, titles, and phrases from this book in my future work.