Beloved especially by the Victorians, who sought levity, fantasy, and beauty as industrialization moved apace in the mid-nineteenth century, fairies have long bewitched humankind with their otherworldly beauty and magic, inspiring art and the written word across the literary spectrum, in British folklore, medieval romance, fantasy tales, poetry, and plays, including classics such as Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella, and in modern television shows such as Once Upon a Time and True Blood.

The Fairy Handbook is a charming illustrated digest that captures all the beauty and magic of these winged sprites. Editor in Chief of the gorgeous, widely praised Faerie Magazine, Carolyn Turgeon, with her editors and select contributors has compiled a store of essential knowledge and interesting details on these delightful pixies, highlighting their world through lore, essays, and poetry; fine art and photography; delicious recipes and readily doable projects in four distinct sections: Flora and Fauna; Fashion and Beauty; Arts and Culture; Home, Food, and Entertaining.

About the Author

Carolyn Turgeon is the author of five novels—Rain Village, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story, Mermaid, The Fairest of Them All, and The Next Full Moon, most of them based on old-time fairy tales, dark and glimmering—and, more recently, The Faerie Handbook and The Mermaid Handbook.

She's also also the editor-in-chief of Faerie Magazine, a quarterly print publication that the NY Times called “what would happen if Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Martha Stewart Living had a magazine baby.”

Currently she lives in a 1930s building in Baltimore that might have emerged from a Greta Garbo film and/or The Shining, depending on your mood, and is writing like a madwoman, usually from her purple velvet couch. Learn more at carolynturgeon.com and faeriemagazine.com.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins US
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 7 December 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062668110
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062668110
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 971 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.42 x 3.18 x 26.04 cm