The Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book – Andrew Lang

In his “Blue Fairy-Book” Mr. Andrew Lang did not exhaust the fairy treasury, and in this companion volume he has collected many attractive tales. They are mainly from Madame d’Aulnoy and other French sources, the Norse and the unfailing German. Mr. Lang has condensed the story of “Sigurd” from William Morris’ version of the ” Volsunga Saga.” The “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” the “Death of Koschei the Deathless,” the “Master Thief,” “Kari Woodengown,” “Dapplegrim,” ” Minnikin,” and ” Rapunzel ” are among the less familiar tales here.

The Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book

Format: Paperback.

The Red Fairy Book.

ISBN: 9783849673048.

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Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books (from Wikipedia):

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang’s “Coloured” Fairy Books or Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories. Four of the later volumes (from 1908 to 1912) were published as by “Mrs. Lang”.

According to Anita Silvey, “The irony of Lang’s life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel … he is best recognized for the works he did not write.”

The twelve Coloured Fairy Books were illustrated by H. J. Ford (Henry Justice Ford), the first two volumes shared with G. P. Jacomb-Hood and Lancelot Speed respectively, the sequels alone. Several other volumes were illustrated by Ford.

 

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