A review by kitsuneheart
English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel

2.0

Eh...I'm not so much a fan of this collection. While Jacobs does write fairly well, I felt like I was hearing a few stories over again. In particular, I'm certain there were at least three stories of giants with some variant on the "grind your bones to make my bread" speech. There's also the complication of many of these fairy tales just being adaptations from Andersen and Grimm, so they don't feel particularly English. I'd say, if you were spending money (and really, do not, Grimm, Andersen, and Jacobs are all in the public domain, so just download ebook versions of their collections), you should get Jacobs after getting Andersen and Grimm, and also after getting stories from ore distant countries.

I listened to a free audio production from Librivox, which was fairly well done, so if you like audiobooks, go download this one.