Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Modern Library Classics)

Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as “the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life.”

“The impact of these tales doesn’t stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde,” writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, “for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns.”

• Collected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library Book 13)
• The Celtic Twilight
• The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends
• Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales
• Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales (Illustrated)
• Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Classics)
• Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
• In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
• The Book of Celtic Myths: From the Mystic Might of the Celtic Warriors to the Magic of the Fey Folk, the Storied History and Folklore of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales
• Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (complete: First & Second Series)