{"product_id":"fairy-folk-tales-of-ireland-9780684829524","title":"Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELAND'S RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS'S MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFairy and Folk Tales of Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e combines two books of Irish folklore collected and edited by William Butler Yeats -- \u003ci\u003eFairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, \u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1888, and \u003ci\u003eIrish Fairy Tales, \u003c\/i\u003e published in 1892. In this delightful gathering of legend and song, the familiar characters of Irish myth come to life: the mercurial trooping fairies, as ready to make mischief as to do good; the solitary and industrious Lepracaun and his dissipated cousin, the Cluricaun; the fearsome Pooka, who lives among ruins and has \"grown monstrous with much solitude\"; and the Banshee, whose eerie wailing warns of death. More than an ambitious and successful effort to preserve the rich heritage of his native land, this volume confirms Yeats's conviction that imagination is the source of both life and art. As Benedict Kiely observes in his foreword, Yeats was seeking \"not for the meaning of any mystery but for what he had already determined to find...a world of the imagination...a world that fed on dreaming and not on the painted toy of grey truth.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684829524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 5.36w x 0.99d","brand":"William Butler Yeats","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639943983260,"sku":"9780684829524","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_300e4820-8cf3-4a85-a69c-6f6965ebf504.jpg?v=1607546375","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fairy-folk-tales-of-ireland-9780684829524","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}