My Penguin Classics Collection [cc]

I did like christmas carol but it was years and years and years and years ago that I read it so it is definitely not a complete education on him as an author but yet that is of course the one that I own.

Similarly these were first written in the 19th century, and are absolutely fantastic. George macdonald collects together folk tales and fairy tales but he also spins his own yarns and I absolutely adore his writing, although this is another one that I desperately wish had been re-type-set for a more modern reader because it is very tiny print in a font it is not the most legible so yeah if I had anything to say about the penguin classics range is that I wish they were consistent in re-type setting things.

And Ida B Wells was a young black woman and a journalist living in the post bellum US, so after the end of slavery but actually a lot earlier than somebody like Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement that a lot of us are familiar with, and she was campaigning against racism and racial injustice in the post-bellum America, so yeah an incredible woman an incredible source of history.

I adore this collection if you're into fairy tales this is such an interesting collection to compare to authors like hans christian anderson and the grimm's brothers because there are similarities but also little differences and I really enjoy that.