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| The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves & Other Little People | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas Keightley
Publisher: Gramercy
Category: Book
Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 109966
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0517263130
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.21
UPC: 045863263131
EAN: 9780517263136
ASIN: 0517263130
Publication Date: September 5, 2000
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Product Description
A fascinating compendium of folklore, superstitions, and mythology surrounding the 'little people', including discussions of fairy tradition as it appears in great works of English literature.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Interesting book September 20, 2008
Note that I have the 1978 reprint, so the typesetting issues are not present in that edition.
This work was to be the authoritative study of its day on the topic of fairy folk lore. It succeeds in this role brilliantly, although much of the author's analysis is dated and/or overly simplistic. The author was a contemporary of Jacob Grimm and was clearly inspired by the various works by the Grimm brothers on cultural lore.
This work provides a general analytical overview of the lore side-by-side with the folk tales. Most of the book is taken up by source material so even if the analysis sometimes wanders. About a third of the analysis is such that I don't think that we have better conclusions today, while about a third of it is clearly obsolete. Since such analysis is the minority of the book, this is no big issue.
One point that may drive some readers crazy though is the way in which his spellings by dialect and era are far removed from the present Servian instead of Serbian, Majjar instead of Magyar, etc may drive some readers crazy. However, the bulk of the work is sufficiently interesting that I woud give this work a 5-star rating regardless of these criticisms.
the world guide to gnomes, fairies, elves and other little people August 13, 2008
My husband loves this book. He has been looking for a book that describes "little people" for a long time.
Fairies Elves Oh My! March 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Cleverly written, chuck full of items of interest. Just a pocket of information for the researcher.
Loved this book.
 A ghastly edition of an otherwise interesting book due to poor typesetting August 7, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This edition looks like someone typed this up on an early manual typewriter, that was made in the 1800's. Then it was ran off on an old fashioned copy machine, afterwards. The text is splotchy in some parts and parts of letters are missing in others. While some may not be bothered by that, I found it distracting and annoying.
 Hard to read.... November 27, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was not an easy to read book. I am guessing that is due to how old it is, and people just don't speak that way anymore. It was interesting to see how people really believed in this and how they handled it. I think I read it a little at a time over a 6 month period.
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