Faerie Kingdom [Hardcover]

Celia Haddon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1999

This mosaic of poetry, prose and glorious Victorian fairy paintings brings to life the fascinating world of fairies in a volume that makes an ideal gift book. Full-color illustrations.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684868385
• ISBN-13: 978-0684868387
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,160,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kingdom of Faerie on my coffee table, May 11, 2000

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rowan eaglecrest (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faerie Kingdom (Hardcover)

This is truly the most amazing art book on fae I have seen, aside from Brian Froud. The pictures take me to fantasy land on a regular basis. The colors couldn't be any better. Its the perfect gift for the faerie collecter, including yourself. I give it only 4 stars because it could have used more script and more pictures, although they were beautiful, I wish this book was bigger!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and insightful book..., July 1, 2011

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The pictures within this book are quite gorgeous and well worth the price alone. Of course, I already have many of these images in other fairy art compilations, so it wasn't anything new for me. I think this is one of the first books where there is an equal amount of text and artwork to go along with it.

The inside of this book starts out with the author's explanation of how slowly humanity lost their belief in faerie beings due to horrific tortures and persecutions by Christianity. Celia Haddon's attitude toward non- believers is made apparent when she states that "those who favour a world of dull facts will be sure that there are no faeries, just as there are no angels, no devils, no human souls and no God". This book is geared toward people who are able to accept that not everything may have concrete evidence of existence. I found that one of the reasons this book is so appealing. The text is basically accounts of different faerie encounters and mythologies from various centuries written by people who supposedly experienced the fae first- hand. There is some poetry sprinkled among the text and I am happy to announce that for once the poetry wasn't bad. I am in no way a fan of poetry, especially ones that don't rhyme, but these ones were actually well chosen.

The artwork, poetry and excerpts of different works were all titled on the bottom of each page explaining the original title and the author or artist. I am happy that I don't have to flip through to the bibliography/credits page to figure out who painted a particular piece of art. I would easily recommend this book to anyone who loves old fashioned paintings and wants a lovely gift book worth reading. I am providing a video to show what kind of images are inside of this volume.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting Faerie Art Book, December 21, 2006

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Miss Mermaid "Respect Water" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

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This is another book a collector of Faerie art books will want to have. Pleasantly put together, it's art for the eye to relish in. There are many unique Fae inspired images to behold; ones I haven't seen in any other books I have listed in my Book List on Amazon. It's out of print so good luck finding a nice copy.