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...Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss Blackley, and Miss Hang. 'The Three Sons of Hali' is from the last century 'Cabinet des Fees,' a very large collection. The French author may have had some Oriental original before him in parts...
Fairy tales, Fiction
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book. Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand. So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales. We cannot all be young, alas! and pretty, and strong; but nothing prevents us from being kind, and no kind man, woman, or beast or bird, ever comes to anything but good in these oldest fables of the world. (Summary of the Author's Preface by Elliott Miller)...
Children, Fiction, Fantasy, Short stories
First Edition printed in 1881. Second Edition. The final chapter enlarged, and further illustrations added 1892.
Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886).
To the Viscountess Wolseley -- Preface -- Elzevirs -- Ballade of the Real and Ideal -- Curiosities of Parish Registers -- The Rowfant Books -- To F. L. -- Some Japanese Bogie-books -- Ghosts in the Library -- Literary Forgeries -- Bibliomania in France -- Old French Title-pages -- A Bookman's Purgatory -- Ballade of the Unattainable -- Lady Book-lovers....
...The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Coloured Books . The series was immensely popular and proved of great influence in children's literature, increasing the popularity of fairy tales over tales of real life. (Summary a...
Fairy tales, Children
...Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’s Fai...
...Andrew Lang’s Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’...
Children, Fairy tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Short stories
...Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (...
Fairy tales, Children, Myths/Legends, Short stories
...Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's...
Children, Animals, Fairy tales
... widely known in the West from the 18th century, after it was translated from the Arabic — first into French and then into English and other European languages. The first English language edition, based on Galland's French rather than the original Arabic, rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment - and this, or simply The Arabian Nights, has been the title by...
Children, Fairy tales, Fiction, Short stories
...Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his so...
Children, Fairy tales, Fiction
...The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. A P ENN S T... ...The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. A P ENN S TATE E L... ...TE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...CTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publication of the Pennsyl vania... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers , the Pennsylvania State Univer ... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, ... ...rsity. 3 The Iliad of Homer The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. PREF PREF P... ... 3 The Iliad of Homer The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. PREF PREF PREF PRE... ... I. – IX. . . . . W . Leaf. " X. – XVI. . . . . A. Lang. " XVII. – XXIV. . . . . E. Myers. Each T ranslator is ther...
Excerpt: Prefatory Note: The execution of this version of the Iliad has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than one portion has been determined after deliberation in common. Even in these, however, a certain elasticity has been deemed desirable....
...The Crimson Fairy Book contains thirty-six stories collected from around the world and edited by Andrew Lang. Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian nurseries; the Servians are responsible for some; a rather peculiarly fanciful ...
Fairy tales, Children, Fiction
This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer) You will not think, therefore, that the respectful Liberty we have taken with your Wondrous Tale... indicates any lack of Loyalty to our Lady Ayesha. Her beauties are beyond the reach of danger from Burlesque, nor does her form flit across our humble pages. (taken from the Dedication)...
Humor, Fiction