Green Fairy Book - Lang, Andrew
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This vintage volume contains Andrew Lang¿s 1892 work, "The Green Fairy Book". Lang wrote twelve coloured fairy books in total, each of which contain a lovely selection of fairy tales that can be enjoyed by all the family. In total the books comprise 437 fairy tales that originate from, or are inspired by a wide range of cultures and countries. These wonderful fairy tales make for timeless bedtime reading, and will appeal to collectors of fairy-based literature. The stories contained herein include: ¿The Blue Bird¿, ¿The Half-Chick¿, ¿The Enchanted Watch¿, ¿Rosanellä, ¿Sylvain and Jocosä,…mehr

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This vintage volume contains Andrew Lang¿s 1892 work, "The Green Fairy Book". Lang wrote twelve coloured fairy books in total, each of which contain a lovely selection of fairy tales that can be enjoyed by all the family. In total the books comprise 437 fairy tales that originate from, or are inspired by a wide range of cultures and countries. These wonderful fairy tales make for timeless bedtime reading, and will appeal to collectors of fairy-based literature. The stories contained herein include: ¿The Blue Bird¿, ¿The Half-Chick¿, ¿The Enchanted Watch¿, ¿Rosanellä, ¿Sylvain and Jocosä, ¿Fairy Gifts¿, ¿Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine¿, ¿The Three Little Pigs¿, ¿Heart of Ice¿, ¿The Enchanted Ring¿, ¿The Snuff-Box¿, and many more. Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and critic. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Autorenporträt
Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish 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 was born in 1844 in Selkirk, Scottish Borders. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first Duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.[1] He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto School, and the Edinburgh Academy, as well as the University of St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian.[2] He was a member of the Order of the White Rose, a Neo-Jacobite society which attracted many writers and artists in the 1890s and 1900s.[3] In 1906, he was elected FBA.[4] He died of angina pectoris on 20 July 1912 at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews, where a monument can be visited in the south-east corner of the 19th century section.