Twenty-six characteristic tales, both romantic and comic, from the folklore of the Celts of the British Isles, collected from both Gaelic and English speaking peasants.

"An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game."-Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son. "The reigning King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an encore Up in Honey's Room. In Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories, the loose cannon...

A bewitching collection of stories, poems and snippets of fairie lore from Great Britain and Ireland that are influenced by writers and artists from the Victorian era.

"When Goldilock sneaks into the three bears' cottage, it seems there's no one home. But the bears soon return from their walk. Will they catch that naughty little girl?"--Page 4 of cover.

"Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up,"...