The Firelight Fairy Book (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Firelight Fairy Book Any reasonable child will find many such parallel instances of the assumed omnipotence of grown ups. With this awful indictment before me, you ask me, a grown-up, to write an introduction for the Firefight Fairy Book, and thereby to assume the responsibility for passing judgment upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.