A review by mat_tobin
The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin

3.0

A rather quaint yet rich in vocabulary collection of fairy tales edited by the great John Ruskin. The main story itself, which takes up almost half the book is Ruskin's own 'The King of the Golden River' which I felt did not do the best job of donning the mantle of seeming like a traditional tale but I couldn't argue with how well he rights. The language may be too rich for some but nevertheless it opens the reader and listener to a wonderful vocabulary.
The rest of the book consists of retellings of myths and fairy tales with, I felt, the better retelling being The Golden Apples of Lough Erne 'told from traditional sources'.