Excerpt from The Fairy Book: Illustrated With Eighty One Cuts by Adams<br><br>Giles Gingerbread, and Goody two-shoes grown up and living among the people of our own days.<br><br>Lord Evron, too, owes his whole popularity to the same cause and no other. For throughout all his poems, and his private life to boot, he was little more than an imitator, and to my mind, only a strutting, mouthing, affected, theatrical, coxcombical imitator, of the noble and more original Blue Beard, that most oriental and ferocious of husbands, that most magnificent and mysterious of murderers.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.