This collection has well over 50 folk-tales from the British isles as compiled into one set by James Riordan. The tales are organized by region. These include the West Country, the South East, Wales, the Midlands and so forth. Also included are tales from Scotland and Ireland. The book is from a Soviet publisher, Raduga, but the stories themselves are in English. The foreward is in Russian, though, and there are a number of the stories in Russian translation at the end of the book. The end of the book includes notes in English to the stories that are fascinating to read as well as they explain the sources of the stories, some of which are older people who were interviewed by folklorists. There is also an extensive English bibliography. A glossary is also included. The glossary is necessary because the stories are told in folk language and the English that is spoken in the folk-tales is sometimes archaic or has the differences expected in dialects. However, none of the stories are difficult to read, although they do sound quite folksy.