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"On Fairy-Stories" is J.R. R. Tolkien's analysis of the genre of fairy-stories, or more generally, fantasy.
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Even fairy-stories as a whole have three faces: the Mystical toward the Supernatural; the Magical toward Nature; and the Mirror of scorn and pity toward Man.
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Even fairy-stories as a whole have three faces: the Mystical toward the Supernatural; the Magical toward Nature; and the Mirror of scorn and pity toward Man.
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There he had a little nest above a window, where his wife lived, who can tell fairy-stories.
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England and who bears more than a passing resemblance to wicked witches in any number of fairy-stories.
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Old Katharine had never before seen any thing like it -- she stood staring at the lady, and dreaming again of the fairy-stories of her childhood, while Martha sat on her cane chair as if petrified, and afraid lest the slightest noise should dispel the enchanting apparition.
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Is that the effect fairy-stories produce upon you?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
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Now of course when you can't see your enemy you can't very well hit him, so when we clear our minds of fairy-stories about Lyddite and the universal destruction wrought by concussion, it seems highly probable that there is much more truth in the Boers 'returns of their casualties than has been believed at home.
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"He won't get anything out of him," said Orme -- "except fairy-stories."
The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure
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A huge appetite is a frequent characteristic of changelings in fairy-stories
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