A collection of classic Victorian fairy tales by such authors as John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde.

The king of the golden river / John Ruskin ; illustrated by Richard Doyle --\The pied piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning ; illustrated by George Cruikshank --\The rose and the ring / William Makepeace Thackeray ; illustrated by the author --\The magic fish-bone / Charles Dickens ; illustrated by John Gilbert --\Melilot / Henry Morely ; illustrated by Charles H. Bennett --\The fairies / William Allingham ; illustrated by Arthur Hughes --\The little lame prince and his travelling-cloak / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik ; illustrated by John McL. Ralston --\Goblin Market / Christina Rossetti ; illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti --\The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary De Morgan ; illustrated by Walter Crane --\The golden key / George MacDonald ; illustrated by Arthur Hughes --\The stolen child / William Butler Yeats --\The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde ; illustrated by Walter Crane --\The brown owl / Ford Madox Ford ; illustrated by Ford Madox Brown --\Rocking-horse land / Laurence Housman ; illustrated by the author --\The reluctant dragon / Kenneth Grahame ; illustrated by Maxfield Parrish --\The deliverers of their country / E. Nesbit ; illustrated by H.R. Millar --\From Peter Pan in the Kensignton gardens / J.M. Barrie ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.