The Irish Fairy Book

10 best books like The Irish Fairy Book (Alfred Perceval Graves): The Fire Rose, Brighton Rock, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Outstretched Shadow, Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, Come Rain or Come Shine, Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, When Darkness Falls

The Fire Rose
AuthorMercedes Lackey
This adaptation of Beauty and the Beast cuts out the merchant father and sisters mourning their sudden impoverishment. Instead of a formerly-wealthy beauty, our heroine is the recently-orphaned daughter of a professor. Highly educated herself, but lacking family or funds, she perforce accepts...
Brighton Rock
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0099478471
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear,...
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
AuthorKate DiCamillo
ISBN0763625892
A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love.

"Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart. . . ."

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit...
The Outstretched Shadow
AuthorMercedes Lackey
ISBN0765302195
Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for women were unfit to practice magic-memorized...
Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
AuthorKatharine M. Briggs
This is a wonderful book and if you have any use for a reference book on fairies, folklore etc. then again...wonderful. If you write (as a lot of us here do) this is a treasure trove of information. If I could I'd buy a copy.

Unfortunately it's out of print and the least expensive copy I've been able...
AuthorJames Stephens
ISBN0486291669
'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'

A good collection, very funny and with that uniquely Irish feel to it. And I should say that this is not so much a collection of Irish fairy tales as a collection of Irish sagas,...
AuthorWalter Pater
'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'

The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would...
Come Rain or Come Shine
AuthorJan Karon
ISBN0399167455
#1 New York Times–bestselling author Jan Karon returns—with the story readers have been waiting for.
 
Over the course of ten Mitford novels, fans have kept a special place in their hearts for Dooley Kavanagh, first seen in At Home in Mitford as a barefoot, freckle-faced boy in filthy...
AuthorMike Resnick
ISBN1567311822
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AuthorMercedes Lackey
ISBN0765341433
When Darkness Falls, the third book in The Obsidian Trilogy from Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

A great working of Wild Magic and High Magic strikes at the heart of the Demon Queen's plots, but the human city, the Golden City of the Bells, falls farther under her sway with each day that passes....
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