The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales

by Parker Fillmore, Jay Van Everen (Illustrator)

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Genres: Fairy Tales

102 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1921

About the author

Parker Hoysted Fillmore

Reviews

[Mienkie Asvat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Parker fillmore is a good author .folklores and fairy tale were very interesting .was not bored or did not drag .I read most of his stories and can say that he is one of the beat folklorists

[A.R. Jarvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Overall, The Laughing Prince is a solid book of mid-level fairy tales. They tended to run long, with lots of side-quests (you saved the princess once? now save her twice more!), but I rarely felt like the stories were dragging.

Generally the stories were non-objectionable for all audiences, although one tale (Lord and Master) had a moral of 'beat your wife if she won't listen', and a few of the later tales were a bit heavy-handedly religious. So a parent might want to read through the tales before sharing them with their children.

All in all, though, it was a good read.

[Mary Catelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some interesting variants on fairy tales. None of the Pop Top 20 even in new form, though wide familiarity with European tales will recognize them in new trimmings. Some show signs of being a bit retold for children Victorian style.

[Jessica Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not TOO Anglicized, not too Victoriana Either

Some new, some that were co-opted by Lang, but here is meat to Lang's bones. The writing isn't bad either! All in all, not a bad read. Enjoy.