Presents twenty-five English-American folktales collected in the 1940s from storytellers in North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, and Maine, including Americanized retellings of "Cinderella," "Robin Hood," "Hansel and Gretel," and "King Lear.".
General Note
"In this book I have taken a free hand in the re-telling. I have put each tale together from different versions"--P. vii.