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Revision as of 19:53, 30 December 2020
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| Editor | David Larkin |
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| Authors | Brian Froud, Alan Lee |
| Illustrators | Brian Froud, Alan Lee |
| Language | English |
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Publication date | November 1978 |
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Faeries is a book written and illustrated by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, first published in 1978.
Overview
The book is an illustrated compendium of faerie mythology, legends and folklore.[2] Spelled in the archaic fashion, the title faeries refers not just to fairies, but encompasses a wide range of mythological creatures including goblins, dwarves, pixies, elves, leprechauns, ogres, boggarts, banshees, mermaids and selkies.[3][4]
The book's contents include information about faerie archaeology, history, characteristics and customs, a geography of Faerieland, and a catalogue of faerie types.[3] It also gives in-universe advice on where faeries are most likely to be found, how to ward off faerie spells, when it is especially dangerous to come across faeries, and the ecology of faery-plant interactions.[5] Although the book's historical information covers folklore from around the world, most of the facts, poetry and literature of faeries come from France, England, Scotland and Ireland.[6] Included amongst Lee and Froud's text are Celtic legends and ballads about faeries, as well as excerpts from poems about faeries by poets such as William Butler Yeats and Christina Rossetti.[3]
In total, the book contains 185 illustrations, 147 in full colour.
Development
The idea for the book came from New York publisher Ian Ballantine. Inspired by the success of the 1977 Dutch-authored book Gnomes, Ballentine recruited the two British illustrators Brian Froud and Alan Lee to produce a similar tome about fairies[2] as a follow up to Gnomes (a third book, Giants, was published following Faeries).[7] Sharing lodging in Chagford on the edge of Dartmoor,[8] Lee and Froud spent nine months researching, illustrating and writing the book.[2] It was published without numbered pages.[4]
Publication and reception
Faeries was first published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in November 1978.[9] It reached number four on the New York Times Best Sellers list.[10][11] By January 1979, it had sold out its first printing of 180,000 copies.[9] By 2003, it had sold over five million copies, including more than 100,000 after a 25th-anniversary edition was published in 2002.[12]
Critical response
The New York Times Book Review wrote that Faeries, as Gnomes did, "rescued the little people from their roles as stereotyped characters in children's books".[13] Dubbing the book a "Baedeker of Faerieland", Stephen Hunter of The Baltimore Sun wrote, "What Froud and Lee have done is to explore the arcana of English, Celtic and Welsh folklore, but to reinterpret in wholly a revisionist way, without sentimentality, without cuteness: Gnomes with fangs. The style is soft and evocative, the colours pale, suggesting the dreamed, the felt, rather than the observed."[14]
New York Times reviewer Helen Bevington praised the tales as "fascinating" and illustrations as "both beautiful and grotesque", but held the criticism that the text did not clearly distinguish fact from fancy.[15] This criticism was shared by The Library Journal Book Review, which wrote, "Faeries suffers from three defects. The text follow no discernable plan. The authors have neglected to establish a point of view: jumbling the scholar's "it is believed" with the believer's "it is" and the satirist's implied "it ought to be" they have not taken their subject seriously, and have left fairies neither mythic, magic, nor figmentary".[16]
Award nominations
Faeries won second place in the 1979 Locus Award for Best Art Book[17] and was nominated for the 1979 Balrog Award for Best Professional Publication.[18]
Release history
| Country | Release date | Edition (Hardback/Paperback) |
Publisher | Pages | ISBN |
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| United States | November 1978 | Hardback | Harry N. Abrams, Inc. | 208 | ISBN 978-0-8109-0901-4 |
| 31 December 1978 | Paperback | Bantam Books | 192 | ISBN 978-0-553-01159-3 | |
| 1 April 1995 | Hardback (Reprint) | Abrams | 208 | ISBN 978-0-8109-0901-4 | |
| 18 November 2002 | Hardback (Anniversary edition) | 216 | ISBN 978-0-8109-3274-6 | ||
| 10 October 2010 | Hardback (Deluxe Collector's edition) | 208 | ISBN 978-0-8109-9586-4 | ||
| United Kingdom | 9 November 1978 | Hardback | Souvenir Press | 188 | ISBN 978-0-285-62359-0 |
| 12 October 1979 | Paperback (New edition) | Pan Books | 208 | ISBN 978-0-330-25756-5 | |
| 11 November 2002 | Paperback (Anniversary edition) | Pavilion Books | 216 | ISBN 978-1-86205-558-2 | |
| Australia | 31 December 1978 | Paperback | Books for Pleasure | 208 | ISBN 978-0-7296-0104-7 |
| 1978 | Hardback | 208 | ISBN 978-0-7296-0104-8 |
Other language editions
- German
- Das große Buch der Geister von Elfen, Nixen, Gnomen, Irrwischen und anderen geheimnisvollen Wesen (The Great Book of Spirits of Elves, Nymphs, Gnomes, Wisps and Other Mysterious Beings) (1979 hardback) by Oldenburg: Stalling, ISBN 978-3-7979-1677-8
- Von Elfen, Goblins, Spukgestalten: Ein Handbuch der anderen Welt, nach alten Quellen erschlossen und aufgezeichnet (Of Elves, Goblins, Ghostly Figures: A Handbook of the Other World, developed and recorded from ancient sources) (1979 hardback) by Gerstenberg: Gebrüder, ISBN 978-3-8067-2895-8
- Dutch — De elfen (1979 hardcover) by Van Holkema & Warendorf, ISBN 978-90-269-6466-4
- Italian — Fate (1987 hardcover) by Rizzoli, ISBN 978-88-17-64104-3
- Spanish — Hadas (2012 hardback) by Literatura Random House, ISBN 978-84-397-1895-6
- Portuguese — Fadas by (1992 paperback) by São Paulo: Siciliano ISBN 978-85-267-0504-3
- French — Les Fées (1979 hardcover) by Paris: Albin Michel
- Japanese — Japanese: フェアリー, romanized: Fearī (2014) by Tōkyō: Gurafikkusha ISBN 978-4-7661-2466-8
- Greek — Greek: Νεράιδες, romanized: Neráides by Greek: Φανταστικός Κόσμος, romanized: Fantastikós Kósmos ISBN 978-960-6868-09-2
- Serbian — Vile i vilenjaci (1980 hardcover) by Belgrade; Rijeka: Otokar Keršovani ISBN 978-86-7702-565-6
Pop-up version
In 1980, a 12-page pop-up version for children was published as The Faeries Pop-up Book by Abrams in the U.S. and Viking Children’s Books in the U.K.[19]
Adaptations
Faeries was the basis of a 1981 animated special of the same name directed by Lee Mishkin that appeared on CBS in the United States.
See also
References
- ^ Gregory, Rhys (7 December 2019). "World Renowned Artists And Designers Inspire Next Generation Of Creatives". Wales247.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ a b c Hauptfuhrer, Fred (19 March 1979). "For Artists Alan Lee & Brian Froud, Life Is a Faerie Tale Come True". People. Vol. 11, no. 11. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
{{cite magazine}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 9 July 2019 suggested (help) - ^ a b c Harper, Sheryl (16 December 1978). "Faeries". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. p. 64. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Winters, Gordon (21 December 1978). "'Faeries' beautifully fills gap in modern education". The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska. p. 12. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Livingston, Dennis (1979). "Faeries". Futures. 11 (6): 532–534. doi:10.1016/0016-3287(79)90057-0.
- ^ Wright, Carol (16 March 2003). "A faery tale". The Manhattan Mercury. Manhattan, Kansas. p. D2. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Beagle, Peter S (2 December 1979). Giants — They're Mostly Big and Dumb. San Francisco, California. p. 4. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite book}}:|newspaper=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Garth, John (28 May 2017). "The man who brings Tolkien to life". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ a b Dawson, Sue (27 January 1979). "Existence of 'Gnomes' is no secret". Journal Magazine. The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, New York. Gannett News Service. p. 4. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Best Sellers". The New York Times. 19 November 1978. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Heritage Capital Corporation (2005). Heritage Comics Auctions #815 Pini Collection Catalog. Ivy Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-932899-50-4.
- ^ Kiefer, Michael (6 May 2003). "Magical tide washes Faeryland onto red rocks of Sedona". Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. p. E2. Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art". The New York Times Book Review. Vol. 2. 1979. p. L.
- ^ Hunter, Stephen (10 December 1978). "Books of wonder, books of light...". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. p. D5. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bevington, Helen (3 December 1978). "Strange Hauntings". Book Review. The New York Times. p. 3. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
- ^ The Library Journal Book Review. R. R. Bowker. 1979. p. 524. ISBN 978-0-8352-1272-4.
- ^ "Locus Awards 1979". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Balrog Awards 1979". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
- ^ The Junior Bookshelf, Volume 44. Marsh Hall. 1980. p. 214.