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)
to public attention when he provided the illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s. Henry Justice Ford was the...
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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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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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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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Anthony Reubens (1850). Fairy Tales From All Nations. New York: Harper. pp. 132–136. "THE CROW from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books". mythfolklore.net. Retrieved...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Elf Maiden (category Sámi fairy tales)
pp. 50–54. Andrew Lang (ed.). "The Elf Maiden". The Brown Fairy Book. Lit2Go ETC. Retrieved 28 February 2024. Lang's Fairy Books The Elf Maiden. Archived...
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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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Andrew Lang 1864 FBA, polymath poet, novelist, literary critic, anthropologist, folklorist Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) Lang's Fairy Books 1889 -...
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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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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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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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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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Beauty and the Beast (redirect from La Belle et la Bête (fairy tale))
related to this article: The Blue Fairy Book A variant of Villeneuve's version appears in Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book. The Merchant's mansion is burned...
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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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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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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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Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess (category French fairy tales)
the Dear Little Princess, a French fairy tale, is the second story in Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book. Andrew Lang gave as reference, at the end of the...
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The Child who came from an Egg (category Estonian fairy tales)
Egg-Born Princess (Estonian: Munast sündinud kuningatütar) is an Estonian fairy tale, collected by Dr. Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald in Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed...
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