bNow back in print, a beautifully illustrated collection of twelve reimagined fairy tales, including classics like Beauty and the Beast and literary tales like Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince.b pAlice and Martin Provensen were one of the most talented husband-and-wife author-illustrator teams of the twentieth century. A long-out-of-print cult classic first published 50 years ago, iThe Provensen Book of Fairy Talesi is a treasury of their illustrations accompanied by fairy tales from authors such as A. A. Milne, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Here too are clever retellings and newly imagined tales refined old favorites like Arthur Rackham's Beauty and the Beast, feminist revisions like Elinor Mordaunt's The Prince and the Goose Girl, and sensitive stories by literary stylists like Henry Beston's The Lost Half-Hour and Katharine Pyle's The Dreamer. Full of magic, ingenuity, and humor, iThe Provensen Book of Fairy Talesi is a witty modern descendant of iGrimm's Fairy Talesi and