known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many...
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variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Colour/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School...
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Henry Justice Ford (category Illustrators of fairy tales)
when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children...
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Green fairy may refer to: Absinthe, an alcoholic beverage The Green Fairy Book (1892) in the series Lang's Fairy Books Fern the Green Fairy, one of the...
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Band. Berlin: C. Reimarus. 1845. pp. 122-123. "THE CROW from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books". mythfolklore.net. Retrieved 2016-05-28. Wójcicki, Kazimierz Władysław...
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The Nunda, Eater of People (category African fairy tales)
Swahili Tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar (1870). Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book (1901). It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for...
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Blockhead Hans (category Danish fairy tales)
translation (as "Blockhead Hans") appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 The Yellow Fairy Book, although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously...
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Virgilius the Sorcerer (category British fairy tales)
Virgilius the Sorcerer is a fairy tale about the poet Virgil by Andrew Lang who included it in The Violet Fairy Book. Medieval legends attributed magical...
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Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (category Collectors of fairy tales)
paragon and encourager of young Estonian-speaking intellectuals. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books J. R. R. Tolkien Kalevala A. Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic...
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A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in...
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Bluebeard (category French fairy tales)
detractor was Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang, selector and editor of the popular children's series Lang's Fairy Books. Lang was displeased with the Orientalist...
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King's Quest (section Books)
Quest was inspired by fairy tales, which designer Roberta Williams loved reading, in particular the Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Many creatures, characters...
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abridging some of the tales in the first six of Lang's Fairy Books, she also collaborated with Andrew Lang on The Very Mab. Possibly her most anthologized...
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Prince Prigio (category Scottish fairy tales)
Prigio is a literary and comic fairy tale written by Andrew Lang in 1889 and illustrated by Gordon Browne. It draws in Lang's folklorist background for many...
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Leonora Blanche Alleyne (redirect from Leonora Blanche Lang)
writer of The Fairy Books, a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang, between 1889 and...
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Tolkien. McKiernan's Faery Series expands tales drawn from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, additionally tying the selected tales together with a larger plot...
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Travesía comparativa por los cuentos tradicionales del mundo Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Books (1890–1913) Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989) Howard Pyle's The Wonder...
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The Six Swans (category Grimms' Fairy Tales)
Dwarfs". SurLaLune Fairy Tales. Archived from the original on 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2016-06-05. "THE SIX SWANS from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books". Mythfolklore...
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List of 19th-century British children's literature titles (category Lists of children's books)
Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (1888) Friday's Child (1889) Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Andrew Lang (from 1889) Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson (1893) The Jungle...
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Lang's suggestion that children have an "unblunted edge of belief" as trading on their credulity and inexperience. As an infant when the Green Fairy Book...
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Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing...
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Mogarzea and his Son (category Male characters in fairy tales)
Mogarzea and his Son is a fairy tale included by Andrew Lang in The Violet Fairy Book. The source was Mite Kremnitz, Rumänische Märchen: Mogarzea und sein...
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Death in children's literature (redirect from Children's books about death)
sister. The stepmother, though, does not come back to life. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books series contains numerous stories with references to death. In one...
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The Prince Who Wanted to See the World (category Portuguese fairy tales)
Ventura) is a Portuguese fairy tale, collected first by Portuguese writer Theophilo Braga. Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book. A king's only...
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A Tale of the Tontlawald (category Estonian fairy tales)
as "The Wood of Tontla" in The Hero of Esthonia. Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book; he listed his source as Ehstnische Märchen, which was...
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folk poetry in Finland. The Scotsman Andrew Lang is known for his 25 volumes of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books from around the world. Francis James Child was...
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to have an affinity for princesses and fairy tales, most especially Andrew Lang's Fairy Books and Grimms' Fairy Tales, in contrast to Kit's more tomboyish...
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Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria (category Collections of fairy tales)
of the region. The book has an introduction by Andrew Lang, famous for his series of fairy books. Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria (entire text) Folk...
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Stan Bolovan (category Romanian fairy tales)
Romanian fairy tale collected in Rumänische Märchen by Mite Kremnitz (1882). Fairy tale collector Andrew Lang included it in his The Violet Fairy Book (1901)...
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The full text of The Riddle at Wikisource The complete set of Grimms' Fairy Tales, including The Riddle at Standard Ebooks The Riddle, Lang's version...
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