These "Selected Works provide facsimile editions of her landmark writings, spanning the whole of her publishing career, from 1959 to 1980.

    In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies.Contents:My lord bag of rice (Japan) Merman Rosmer (Scotland) The old witch (England) The skipper and the dwarfs (Jutland) Something wonderful (Finland) Selim and the Snake Queen (Greek Isles) Jon and his brothers (French Canada) The monster with seven heads (Madagascar) The giant who had no heart in his body (Norway) The little tailor and the three dogs (Germany) The silver penny (Hungary) Vasilissa most lovely (Russia) Fin M'Coul and Cucullin (Ireland) King Josef (Czechoslovakia) Long, Broad and Sharpsight (Bohemia) The Knights of the the Fish (Spain) The girl in the basket (Italy) The monster in the mill (Macedonia) The lost prince (Iceland) --Lilla Rosa (Sweden) Smoke bones (North America (Indian)) The magic roots (South America) The sailor and the devil (Holland) Sausages (Transylvania) The caribous wife (Alaska)

    But first he must travel far and wide to find a golden eagle, a leaf-green bull, and a lion with a snow-white heart. Only then can he fight with a shining sword to conquer the dragon, fearsome beyond imagining.