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English Fairy Tales is a collection of stories gathered and edited by Australian author Joseph Jacobs. It was published in 1890. Born to a Jewish family in Sydney Australia, Jacobs went on to leave Australia at the age of 18 to study at Cambridge in England, furthering his studies in Germany and Spain, and eventually settling permanently in the United S…