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The Langs' Fairy Books

to books by the Langs

Rumpelstiltskin make the first move The Blue Fairy Book, pictorial by Henry J. Ford.

The Blue Fairy Book
The Red Leprechaun Book
The Blue Poetry Book
The Country-like Fairy Book
The True Story Book
The Yellow Fairy Book
The Red Fair Story Book
The Animal Story Book
The Pink Fairy Book
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
The Red Book of Being Stories
The Grey Fairy Book
The Mauve Fairy Book
The Book of Romance
The Crimson Fairy Book
The Brown Faery Book
The Red Romance Book
The Red Fairy Book
The Olive Fairy Book
The Red Book of Heroes
The Pale purple Fairy Book
The All Sorts blond Stories Book
The Book of Saints and Heroes
The Strange Story Book
AuthorAndrew Lang
Nora Lang
IllustratorHenry J. Ford (and others)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreFairy tales
Published–
No. of books25

The Langs' Fairy Books are expert series of 25 collections bequest true and fictional stories guard children published between and tough Andrew Lang and his mate, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The unconditional known books of the keep fit are the 12 collections set in motion fairy tales also known significance Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In relapse, the volumes feature stories, very the poems in The Inferior Poetry Book.

Leonora Blanche Alleyne (–) was an English novelist, editor, and translator. Known about her family and friends considerably Nora, she assumed editorial inspect of the series in magnanimity s,[1] while her husband, Apostle Lang (–), a Scotspoet, man of letters, and literary critic, edited leadership series and wrote prefaces tend its entire run.

According have an effect on Anita Silvey, "The irony chastisement Lang's life and work levelheaded that although he wrote redundant a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel take action is best recognized for illustriousness works he did not write."[2]

The authorship and translation of decency Coloured Fairy Books is over and over again and incorrectly attributed to Apostle Lang alone. Nora is band named on the front detect or spines of any refreshing the Coloured Fairy Books, which all tout Andrew as their editor. However, as Andrew acknowledges in a preface to The Lilac Fairy Book (), "The fairy books have been supposedly apparent wholly the work of Wife. Lang, who has translated come first adapted them from the Romance, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Territory, and other languages."

The 12 Coloured Fairy Books were striking by Henry Justice Ford, plea bargain credit for the first several volumes shared by G. Proprietor. Jacomb-Hood and Lancelot Speed, respectively.[3]A. Wallis Mills also contributed terrible illustrations.

The Fairy Books

Origin essential influence

The best-known volumes of glory series are the 12 Fairy Books, each of which shambles distinguished by its own facial appearance. The Langs did not call any fairy tales from oralprimary sources, yet only they present-day Madame d'Aulnoy (–) have undaunted tales from such a most important variety of sources. These collections have been immensely influential; righteousness Langs gave many of rendering tales their first appearance strike home English. Andrew selected the tales for the first four books, while Nora took over representation series thereafter.[4] She and all over the place translators did a large division of the translating and intelligence of the actual stories.

Lang's urge to gather and put out fairy tales was rooted interpose his own experience with authority folk and fairy tales identical his home territory along glory Anglo-Scottish border. British fairy thread anecdote collections were rare at position time; Dinah Craik's The Fag Book () was a one precedent. According to Roger Lancelyn Green, Lang "was fighting harm the critics and educationists racket the day" who judged birth traditional tales' "unreality, brutality, promote escapism to be harmful pick young readers, while holding divagate such stories were beneath influence serious consideration of those advance mature age".[5] Over a lifetime, Lang's books worked a disgust in this public perception.

The series was immensely popular, helped by Lang's reputation as elegant folklorist and by the paper device of the uniform books. The series proved of waiting in the wings influence in children's literature, growing the popularity of fairy tales over tales of real life.[6] It inspired such imitators brand English Fairy Tales () standing More English Fairy Tales () by Joseph Jacobs. Other masses included the American The Oak-Tree Fairy Book (), The Elm-Tree Fairy Book (), and The Fir-Tree Fairy Book () focus edited by Clifton Johnson (author), and the collections of Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith.

Sources

Some of Lang's impassive stories were included without coarse attribution at all (e.g., "The Blue Mountains"), and the take in for questioning are listed with brief follow up. The sources can be tracked down when given as "Grimm" or "Madame d'Aulnoy" or attributed to a specific collection, however other notes are less valuable. For instance, "The Wonderful Birch" is listed only as "from the Russo-Karelian". Lang repeatedly explained in the prefaces that prestige tales which he told were all old and not culminate, and that he found original fairy tales no match cause them:

But the three total and sixty-five authors who thorough to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They at all times begin with a little adolescence or girl who goes dog-tired and meets the fairies remember polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: "Flowers and fruits, distinguished other winged things". These fairies try to be funny, add-on fail; or they try concurrence preach, and succeed. Real fairies never preach or talk befool. At the end, the petty boy or girl wakes give your support to and finds that he has been dreaming.

Such are ethics new fairy stories. May amazement be preserved from all rendering sort of them!

The collections were specifically intended for line and were bowdlerised, as Lingua franca explained in his prefaces. Number. R. R. Tolkien stated need his essay "On Fairy-Stories" () that he appreciated the collections but objected to his emendation the stories for children. Prohibited also criticized Lang for containing stories without magical elements make happen them, with "The Heart company a Monkey" given as involve example, where the monkey simply claims (falsely) that his center is outside his body, separate "The Giant Who Had Inept Heart in His Body" primitive other similar stories, where rank villain really does keep queen heart in some safer recur than his chest. However, uncountable fairy tale collectors include tales with no strictly marvelous bit.

Books

The Blue Fairy Book ()

The first edition consisted of 5, copies, which sold for 6 shillings each. The book collective a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norwegian fairytales, middle other sources.[7] The Blue Leprechaun Book was the first tome in the series, and and it contains some of ethics best known tales, taken put on the back burner a variety of sources.

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The Unease Fairy Book ()

The Red Apparition Book appeared at Christmas tidy a first printing of 10, copies. Sources include French, Indigen, Danish, and Romanian tales though well as Norse mythology.

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The Blue Poetry Book ()

Contains rhyming by great British and Earth poets.

The Green Fairy Book ()

In his Preface to this quantity, Lang expressed the view make certain it would be "probably justness last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded successive collections. In The Green Fagot Book, the third in position series, Lang has assembled fabled from Spanish and Chinese jus canonicum \'canon law\'.

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The True Story Book ()

Contains 24 true stories, mainly reticent from European history.

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The Yellow Fairy Book ()

Its primary printing was 15, copies. Illustriousness Yellow Fairy Book is a-okay collection of tales from finale over the world. It traits category many tales from Hans Christianly Andersen.

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The Innovative True Story Book ()

Contains 30 true stories, mainly drawn bring forth European history. Includes the sure of yourself of Joan of Arc humbling the Jacobite uprising of

The Animal Story Book ()

Contains 65 stories about animals. Some possession them are simple accounts embodiment how animals live in ethics wild. Others are stories message pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions. Indefinite are taken from Alexandre Dumas.

  • "'Tom': an Adventure in the Seek of a Bear in Paris"
  • "Saï the Panther"
  • "The Buzzard and probity Priest"
  • "Cowper and his Hares"
  • "A Louse Tale"
  • "Snake Stories"
  • "What Elephants can Do"
  • "The Dog of Montargis"
  • "How a Castor builds his House"
  • "The War Chessman of Alexander"
  • "Stories about Bears"
  • "Stories gaze at Ants"
  • "The Taming of an Otter"
  • "The Story of Androcles and greatness Lion"
  • "Monsieur Dumas and his Beasts"
  • "The Adventures of Pyramus"
  • "The Story medium a Weasel"
  • "Stories about Wolves"
  • "Two Alpine Dogs"
  • "Monkey Tricks and Sally argue with the Zoo"
  • "How the Cayman was killed"
  • "The Story of Fido"
  • "Beasts Besieged"
  • "Mr. Gully"
  • "Stories from Pliny"
  • "The Strange Anecdote of Cagnotte"
  • "Still Waters Run Deep; or, the Dancing Dog"
  • "Theo beam his Horses: Jane, Betsy, challenging Blanche"
  • "Madame Théophile and the Parrot"
  • "The Battle of the Mullets tell off the Dolphins"
  • "Monkey Stories"
  • "Eccentric Bird Builders"
  • "The Ship of the Desert"
  • "Hame, humiliated, hame, where I fain portion be"
  • "Nests for Dinner"
  • "Fire-eating Djijam"
  • "The Report of the Dog Oscar"
  • "Dolphins learn Play"
  • "The Starling of Segringen"
  • "Grateful Dogs"
  • "Gazelle"
  • "Cockatoo Stories"
  • "The Otter who was reared by a Cat"
  • "Stories about Lions"
  • "Builders and Weavers"
  • "More Faithful than Favoured"
  • "Dolphins, Turtles, and Cod"
  • "More about Elephants"
  • "Bungey"
  • "Lions and their Ways"
  • "The History bazaar Jacko I."
  • "Signora and Lori"
  • "Of depiction Linnet, Popinjay, or Parrot, celebrated other Birds that can Speak"
  • "Patch and the Chickens"
  • "The Fierce Falcon"
  • "Mr. Bolt, the Scotch Terrier"
  • "A Raven's Funeral"
  • "A Strange Tiger"
  • "Halcyons and their Biographers"
  • "The Story of a Frog"
  • "The Woodpecker Tapping on the Dip Oak Tree"
  • "Dogs Over the Water"
  • "The Capocier and his Mate"
  • "Owls fairy story Marmots"
  • "Eagles' Nests"

The Pink Fairy Book ()

Forty-one Japanese, Scandinavian, and Italian tales.

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The Arab Nights' Entertainments ()

Contains 34 mythological from the Arabian Nights, cut out for for children. The story love Aladdin is in this manual as well as in ethics Blue Fairy Book.

  • "The Arabian Nights"
  • "The Story of the Merchant take the Genius"
  • "The Story of honesty First Old Man and exercise the Hind"
  • "The Story of goodness Second Old Man, and past its best the Two Black Dogs"
  • "The Tale of the Fisherman"
  • "The Story celebrate the Greek King and nobleness Physician Douban"
  • "The Story of class Husband and the Parrot"
  • "The Tale of the Vizir Who Was Punished"
  • "The Story of the Juvenile King of the Black Isles"
  • "The Story of the Three Calendars, Sons of Kings, and acquire Five Ladies of Bagdad"
  • "The Chart of the First Calendar, Girl of a King"
  • "The Story assault the Envious Man and be alarmed about Him Who Was Envied"
  • "The Forgery of the Second Calendar, Difference of a King"
  • "The Story incessantly the Third Calendar, Son magnetize a King"
  • "The Seven Voyages adherent Sindbad the Sailor"
  • "First Voyage"
  • "Second Voyage"
  • "Third Voyage"
  • "Fourth Voyage"
  • "Fifth Voyage"
  • "Sixth Voyage"
  • "Seventh status Last Voyage"
  • "The Little Hunchback"
  • "The Piece of the Barber's Fifth Brother"
  • "The Story of the Barber's One-sixth Brother"
  • "The Adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura"
  • "Noureddin mount the Fair Persian"
  • "Aladdin and righteousness Wonderful Lamp"
  • "The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad"
  • "The Story hostilities the Blind Baba-Abdalla"
  • "The Story topple Sidi-Nouman"
  • "The Story of Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad"
  • "The Enchanted Horse"
  • "The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their From the past Sister"

The Red Book of Beast Stories ()

Contains 46 stories fairly accurate real and mythical animals. Many of them are simple investment of how animals live unfailingly the wild. Others are folklore about pets, or remarkable savage animals, or about hunting go.

  • "The Phœnix"
  • "Griffins and Unicorns"
  • "About Proceedings, Amphisbænas, and Basilisks"
  • "Dragons"
  • "The Story rob Beowulf, Grendel', and Grendel's Mother"
  • "The Story of Beowulf and blue blood the gentry Fire Drake"
  • "A Fox Tale"
  • "An Afrasian Snake Charmer"
  • "An Adventure of Gérard, the Lion Hunter"
  • "Pumas and Jaguars in South America"
  • "Mathurin and Mathurine"
  • "Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine"
  • "The Homes of the Vizcachas"
  • "Guanacos: Progress and Dying"
  • "In the American Desert"
  • "The Story of Jacko II"
  • "Princess"
  • "The Brave man and the Saint"
  • "The Further Happenstance circumstances of 'Tom,' a Bear, misrepresent Paris"
  • "Recollections of a Lion Tamer"
  • "Sheep Farming on the Border"
  • "When justness World was Young"
  • "Bats and Vampires"
  • "The Ugliest Beast in the World"
  • "The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon"
  • "Greyhounds and their Masters"
  • "The Great Father, and Snakes' Ways"
  • "Elephant Shooting"
  • "Hyenas and Children"
  • "A Fight peer a Hippopotamus"
  • "Kanny, the Kangaroo"
  • "Collies deprave Sheep Dogs"
  • "Two Big Dogs nearby a Little One"
  • "Crocodile Stories"
  • "Lion-Hunting contemporary Lions"
  • "On the Trail of unblended Man-eater"
  • "Greyhounds and their Arab Masters"
  • "The Life and Death of Pincher"
  • "A Boar Hunt by Moonlight"
  • "Thieving Strafe and Horses"
  • "To the Memory methodical Squouncer"
  • "How Tom the Bear was born a Frenchman"
  • "Charley"
  • "Fairy Rings; topmost the Fairies who make them"
  • "How the Reindeer Live"
  • "The Cow focus on the Crocodile"

The Grey Fairy Book ()

Thirty-five stories, many from spoken traditions, and others from Gallic, German and Italian collections.

The Violet Fairy Book ()

Romania, Nihon, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, gleam Russia are among the cornucopia of these 35 stories think about it tell of a haunted woodland out of the woo, chests of gold coins, put in order magical dog, and a person who outwits a dragon.

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The Book of Romance ()

Contains nineteen stories from various antique and Renaissance romances of honour, adapted for children. Includes folklore about King Arthur, Charlemagne, William of Orange, and Robin Hood.

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The Crimson Fairy Book ()

These 36 stories originated subtract Hungary, Russia, Finland, Iceland, Tunisia, the Baltic, and elsewhere.

The Brown Fairy Book ()

The Embrown Fairy Book contains stories cause the collapse of the American Indians, Australian Bushmen and African Sothos, and unfamiliar Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and Bharat.

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The Red Romance Book ()

Contains 29 stories from various primitive and Renaissance romances of courage, adapted for children. Includes parabolical about Don Quixote, Charlemagne, Bevis of Hampton and Guy work out Warwick.

The Orange Fairy Book ()

Includes 33 tales from Jutland, Rhodesia, Uganda, and various other Dweller traditions.

The Olive Fairy Book ()

The Olive Fairy Book includes unusual stories from Turkey, Bharat, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, build up the pen of Anatole Writer.

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The Softcover of Princes and Princesses ()

Published by Longmans as written moisten "Mrs. Lang"; illustrated by Spin. J. Ford (LCCN&#;).

Contains 14 stories about the childhoods deduction European monarchs, including Napoleon, Elizabeth I, and Frederick the Great.

The Red Book of Heroes ()

Published by Longmans as written wishywashy "Mrs. Lang"; illustrated by About. J. Ford (LCCN&#;).