Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties: A Practical Guide by Miss Edythe McFate
Perhaps you think fairies are figments of the imagination, or even relics of an ancient past. You may even think all fairies are lovely winged creatures, who dance in bluebell fields, granting wishes to anyone who should encounter them.
You would be wrong on all counts.
Fairies are very much alive today, and they are everywhere—in our cities, our backyards, and even our kitchen cupboards. Some of them are indeed the sweet-tempered, winged creatures of folklore, but the fairy family also includes goblins, trolls, brownies, and other strange creatures, some of which are revealed to humans in this book for the very first time. While many fairy breeds are harmless, others can be quite nasty or even dangerous.
In this luxuriously illustrated guidebook, preeminent…
About the Author
Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, and historian based in Los Angeles. She is the author of several critically acclaimed middle-grade novels, including Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, The Rising Star of Rusty Nail, Julia and the Art of Practical Travel, and Tennyson, which the Chicago Tribune praised for its “brilliant, unusual writing.”
Blume’s adult nonfiction book Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises documented the lives of Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and the Murphys in France in the 1920s and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second adult non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World, received glowing reviews…
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