Andrew Lang, Fairy Books Collection I

Andrew Lang, Fairy Books Collection I PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500543914
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. His 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 Fairy Books. In the preface of the Lilac Fairy Book he credits his wife with translating and transcribing most of the stories in the collections.Lang examined the origins of totemism in Social Origins (1903). In this book: The Blue Fairy Book The Red Fairy Book The Yellow Fairy Book The Violet Fairy Book The Crimson Fairy Book The Orange Fairy Book

Andrew Lang, Fairy Books Collection I

Andrew Lang, Fairy Books Collection I PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500543914
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Book Description
Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. His 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 Fairy Books. In the preface of the Lilac Fairy Book he credits his wife with translating and transcribing most of the stories in the collections.Lang examined the origins of totemism in Social Origins (1903). In this book: The Blue Fairy Book The Red Fairy Book The Yellow Fairy Book The Violet Fairy Book The Crimson Fairy Book The Orange Fairy Book

The Yellow Fairy Book Annotated

The Yellow Fairy Book Annotated PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Also known as 'The Libation Bearers' this is the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. Many years after king Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife Clytamnestra and her lover Aigisthos, his son Orestes returns home with Pylades to mourn at his grave. He has been living in exile and has come back to Argos in secret; his mission is to avenge Agamemnon's death.

The Green Fairy Book

The Green Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scotland, England, Italy, and one from China.

The Red Fairy Book Annotated

The Red Fairy Book Annotated PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Languages : en
Pages : 494

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The Red Fairy Book was the second of the series of Fairy Books by Andrew Lang. Stories in this collection include: The Twelve Dancing Princesses; The Princess Mayblossom; The Death Of Koshchei The Deathless; The Black Thief And Knight Of The Glen; Princess Rosette; The Norka; Jack And The Beanstalk; Graciosa And Percinet; The Three Princesses Of Whiteland; The Voice Of Death; The True History Of Little Golden Hood; The Three Dwarfs; Rapunzel; Farmer Weatherbeard, and many more.

The Olive Fairy Book

The Olive Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.

The Crimson Fairy Book

The Crimson Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Company
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The Brown Fairy Book

The Brown Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia, ' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied

The Lilac Fairy Book

The Lilac Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN: 6052259922
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Our stories are almost all old, some from Ireland, before that island was as celebrated for her wrongs as for her verdure; some from Asia, made, I dare say, before the Aryan invasion; some from Moydart, Knoydart, Morar and Ardnamurchan, where the sea streams run like great clear rivers and the saw-edged hills are blue, and men remember Prince Charlie. Some are from Portugal, where the golden fruits grow in the Garden of the Hesperides; and some are from wild Wales, and were told at Arthur's Court; and others come from the firesides of the kinsmen of the Welsh, the Bretons. There are also modern tales by a learned Scandinavian named Topelius. All the stories were translated or adapted by Mrs. Lang, except 'The Jogi's Punishment' and 'Moti,' done by Major Campbell out of the Push-too language; 'How Brave Walter hunted Wolves,' which, with 'Little Lasse' and 'The Raspberry Worm,' was done from Topelius by Miss Harding; and 'The Sea King's Gift,' by Miss Christie, from the same author. It has been suggested to the Editor that children and parents and guardians would like 'The Grey True Ghost-Story Book.' He knows that the children would like it well, and he would gladly give it to them; but about the taste of fond anxious mothers and kind aunts he is not quite so certain. Before he was twelve the Editor knew true ghost stories enough to fill a volume. They were a pure joy till bedtime, but then, and later, were not wholly a source of unmixed pleasure. At that time the Editor was not afraid of the dark, for he thought, 'If a ghost is here, we can't see him.' But when older and better informed persons said that ghosts brought their own light with them (which is too true), then one's emotions were such as parents do not desire the young to endure. For this reason 'The Grey True Ghost-Story Book' is never likely to be illustrated by Mr. Ford.

The Pink Fairy Book

The Pink Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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A collection of forty-one fairy tales from the folklore of Japan, Scandinavia, Sicily, Africa and Spain.

The Grey Fairy Book

The Grey Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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ISBN: 1406860832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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