Her prose goes down easy, and she fills her stories with characters confronted by moral quandaries and life-changing decisions.

English Fairy and Other Folk Tales, edited by Edwin Sidney Hartland, London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., LTD, [1890], pp. 35-44 Original Source of the Tale Tale Notes There are small variations ...

Fairy tales once promised that when greed, arrogance, and vanity get out of hand, there’s a certain justice in the universe that steps in. What we are living through now throws that out the window.