<div>This beloved volume collects the world&rsquo;s most famous fairy tales, children&rsquo;s classics, and bedtime stories. The enchanting stories of childhood every girl and boy&mdash;and their parents&mdash;cherish are collected in this first volume of Andrew Lang&rsquo;s renowned Fairy Books. Originally published in 1889, this treasure trove of timeless tales of action and adventure, enchanted forests and fantastic creatures, and monsters and magic has thrilled readers all over the world for generations. The thirty-seven stories in this collection&mdash;including such favorites as &ldquo;Little Red Riding Hood,&rdquo; &ldquo;Sleeping Beauty,&rdquo; &ldquo;Cinderella,&rdquo; &ldquo;Rumpelstiltskin,&rdquo; &ldquo;Beauty and the Beast,&rdquo; &ldquo;Hansel and Gretel,&rdquo; &ldquo;Puss in Boots,&rdquo; &ldquo;Aladdin,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Jack the Giant-Killer&rdquo;&mdash;are more than just fairy tales; they are a priceless keepsake of childhood memories that will stand the test of time now and forever. The Blue Fairy Book also includes &ldquo;The Bronze Ring,&rdquo; &ldquo;Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess,&rdquo; &ldquo;East of the Sun and West of the Moon,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Yellow Dwarf,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Master-Maid,&rdquo; &ldquo;Why the Sea Is Salt,&rdquo; &ldquo;Felicia and the Pot of Pinks,&rdquo; &ldquo;The White Cat,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Water-Lily,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Gold-Spinners,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Terrible Head,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Story of Pretty Goldilocks,&rdquo; &ldquo;The History of Whittington,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Wonderful Sheep,&rdquo; &ldquo;Little Thumb,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Forty Thieves,&rdquo; &ldquo;Snow-White and Rose-Red,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Goose-Girl,&rdquo; &ldquo;Toads and Diamonds,&rdquo; &ldquo;Prince Darling,&rdquo; &ldquo;Blue Beard,&rdquo; &ldquo;Trusty John,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Brave Little Tailor,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Voyage to Lilliput,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Princess on the Glass Hill,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Black Bull of Norroway,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Red Etin.&rdquo;</div>

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The Blue Fairy Book

<div>Four timeless anthologies of cherished fables, fairy tales, and bedtime stories from Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and Andrew Lang. The most enchanting stories of childhood are included in this sweeping collection. These are the classic tales&mdash;of princes and princesses, monsters and magic, enchanted forests and fantastic creatures&mdash;that have thrilled readers around the world for generations. Aesop&rsquo;s Fables: In ancient Greece, a storyteller named Aesop captivated his listeners with tales both beautiful and instructive. From &ldquo;The Boy Who Cried Wolf&rdquo; to &ldquo;The Tortoise and the Hare,&rdquo; his fables retain the power to guide and entertain. Hans Christian Andersen&rsquo;s Fairy Tales: Inspired by ancient Danish legends as well as Arabian Nights, Andersen&rsquo;s classic stories&mdash;including &ldquo;The Emperor&rsquo;s New Clothes&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Snow Queen&rdquo; (the basis for Frozen)&mdash;are composed with a directness that children and adults still find refreshing. The Brothers Grimm: From &ldquo;Rapunzel&rdquo; to &ldquo;Hansel and Gretel&rdquo; to &ldquo;Little Red Riding Hood,&rdquo; the German folktales the Brothers Grimm brought to the world&rsquo;s attention have become part of the very fabric of our culture. The Blue Fairy Book: Originally published in 1889, this first volume of Andrew Lang&rsquo;s renowned Fairy Books includes such favorites as &ldquo;Beauty and the Beast,&rdquo; &ldquo;Puss in Boots,&rdquo; &ldquo;Aladdin,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Jack the Giant-Killer.&rdquo; To read these stories is to be transported to a realm of imagination. Here, the most important life lessons are imparted through the irresistible magic of storytelling.</div>

Fables and Fairy Tales

<div>This beloved volume collects the world&rsquo;s most famous fairy tales, children&rsquo;s classics, and bedtime stories. The enchanting stories of childhood every girl and boy cherish are collected in this volume of Andrew Lang&rsquo;s renowned Fairy Books. Originally published in 1890, this treasure trove of timeless tales of action and adventure, enchanted forests and fantastic creatures, and monsters and magic has thrilled readers all over the world for generations. The thirty-seven stories in this collection&mdash;including favorites such as &ldquo;Jack and the Beanstalk,&rdquo; &ldquo;Rapunzel,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Three Dwarfs,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Golden Goose,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Nettle Spinner&rdquo;&mdash;are more than just fairy tales; they are priceless keepsakes of childhood memories that will stand the test of time now and forever.</div>

The Red Fairy Book

<div>This beloved volume collects the world&rsquo;s most famous fairy tales, children&rsquo;s classics, and bedtime stories. The enchanting stories of childhood every girl and boy cherish are collected in this volume of Andrew Lang&rsquo;s renowned Fairy Books. Originally published in 1892, this treasure trove of timeless tales of action and adventure, enchanted forests and fantastic creatures, and monsters and magic has thrilled readers all over the world for generations. The forty-two stories in this collection&mdash;including favorites such as &ldquo;The Three Little Pigs,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Story of the Three Bears,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Twelve Huntsman&rdquo;&mdash;are more than just fairy tales; they are priceless keepsakes of childhood memories that will stand the test of time now and forever.</div>

The Green Fairy Book

<div>This beloved volume collects the world&rsquo;s most famous fairy tales, children&rsquo;s classics, and bedtime stories. The enchanting stories of childhood every girl and boy cherish are collected in this volume of Andrew Lang&rsquo;s renowned Fairy Books. Originally published in 1894, this treasure trove of timeless tales of action and adventure, enchanted forests and fantastic creatures, and monsters and magic has thrilled readers all over the world for generations. The forty-eight stories in this collection&mdash;including favorites such as &ldquo;The Story of the Emperor&rsquo;s New Clothes,&rdquo; &ldquo;Thumbelina,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Six Swans,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Nightingale&rdquo;&mdash;are more than just fairy tales; they are priceless keepsakes of childhood memories that will stand the test of time now and forever.</div>

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The Yellow Fairy Book

<div>A classic fairy tale collection from the Scottish folklorist that includes &ldquo;The Brown Bear of Norway,&rdquo; a variation on the Beauty and the Beast story. First published in 1910, The Lilac Fairy Book is the last of Andrew Lang&rsquo;s Fairy Books of Many Colors, a series known as the best English translations of standard stories and for its rich and wide-ranging scope. Here are thirty-three enchanting tales for children, passed down through generations in Africa, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, India, Portugal, France, and Scandinavia. Along with &ldquo;The Winning Olwen&rdquo;&mdash;an Arthurian legend from the Welsh Mabinogion&mdash;The Lilac Fairy Book includes &ldquo;The False Prince and the True,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Three Crowns,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Heart of a Monkey,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Enchanted Deer,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Story of a Very Bad Boy,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Lady of the Fountain,&rdquo; and more. &ldquo;The old favorite series on which most of us were brought up&mdash;and our parents before us . . . Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting&mdash;from all over the world&mdash;fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Lilac Fairy Book

<div>An international collection of children&rsquo;s fairy tales: &ldquo;Some of the first, and best, stories we ever hear in our lives&rdquo; (The Washington Post). First published in 1900 by renowned Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang, this classic anthology of fairy tales is part of the series known as the Fairy Books of Many Colors. It contains the best English translations of thirty-five imaginative stories from the oral and written traditions of France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Greece, parts of Africa, and other regions. Guaranteed to enchant and entertain children of all ages, The Grey Fairy Book includes such enduring tales as &ldquo;Donkey Skin,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar,&rdquo; &ldquo;What Came of Picking Flowers,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Magician&rsquo;s Horse,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Dog and the Sparrow,&rdquo; &ldquo;The White Wolf,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Twin Brothers.&rdquo; &ldquo;The old favorite series on which most of us were brought up&mdash;and our parents before us . . . Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting&mdash;from all over the world&mdash;fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Grey Fairy Book

<div>An eclectic and exotic collection of children&rsquo;s fairy tales, including Hans Christian Andersen&rsquo;s classic story &ldquo;The Snow-Queen.&rdquo; Spanning the globe, the stories within The Pink Fairy Book explore the oral and written traditions of Japan, Scandinavia, Russia, Greece, Spain, Germany, and Sicily, with tales of dragons, princesses, mermaids, hermits, witches, and wives. Wide-ranging in scope, this volume includes the best English translations of Hans Christian Andersen&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Snow-Queen,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Goblin and the Grocer, &ldquo;The Flying Trunk,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Fir Tree,&rdquo; as well as &ldquo;The House in the Wood&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Two Brothers,&rdquo; both collected by the Brothers Grimm. The collection also features &ldquo;Urashimataro and the Turtle,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Princess in the Chest,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Water of Life,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Wounded Lion,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Merry Wives,&rdquo; and many other legends. &ldquo;The old favorite series on which most of us were brought up&mdash;and our parents before us . . . Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting&mdash;from all over the world&mdash;fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Pink Fairy Book

<div>Children&rsquo;s fairy tales from around the globe, including the Thumbelina-like tale, &ldquo;The Strange Adventures of Little Maia.&rdquo; One of Andrew Lang&rsquo;s Fairy Books of Many Colors, this anthology includes eight Punjabi tales, five from Armenia, and sixteen other stories from Turkey, Denmark, Sudan, Iceland, and more, including &ldquo;The Story of Little King Loc&rdquo; from the pen of Nobel Prize&ndash;winning French poet, journalist, and novelist Anatole France. Turn the pages of The Olive Fairy Book to find heroic princes, evil trolls, wise fairies, talking animals, and witches. This enchanting collection features stories such as &ldquo;Jackal or Tiger?,&rdquo; &ldquo;Samba the Coward,&rdquo; &ldquo;Kupti and Imani,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Green Knight,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Fate of the Turtle,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Snake Prince,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Silent Princess,&rdquo; and others. &ldquo;The old favorite series on which most of us were brought up&mdash;and our parents before us . . . Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting&mdash;from all over the world&mdash;fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Olive Fairy Book

<div>A collection of children&rsquo;s fairy tales&mdash;including &ldquo;The Ugly Duckling&rdquo; by Hans Christian Andersen&mdash;that captures storytelling traditions from all over the world. Andrew Lang&rsquo;s Fairy Books of Many Colors would not be complete without this entry, which includes fairy tales from Rhodesia, Uganda, Finland, Scotland, Scandinavia, France, Spain, and from the folklore of the Punjabis, Jutlanders, and Native Americans. As with the other volumes in this series, The Orange Fairy Book contains the best English translations of the stories within and is rich and wide-ranging in scope. Along with the classic &ldquo;The Ugly Duckling&rdquo; by Hans Christian Andersen and Madam d&rsquo;Aulnoy&rsquo;s &ldquo;The White Doe,&rdquo; this collection features stories such as &ldquo;The Fox and the Wolf,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Two Caskets,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Three Treasures of the Giants,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Girl-Fish,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Clever Cat,&rdquo; &ldquo;Adventures of an Indian Brave,&rdquo; and others. &ldquo;The old favorite series on which most of us were brought up&mdash;and our parents before us . . . Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting&mdash;from all over the world&mdash;fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Orange Fairy Book

<div>Four volumes in the influential series of folklore and fairy tales collected from many cultures&mdash;for children of all ages. In a time when fairy tales were dismissed, even condemned, by academics and critics, Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne, worked to compile a multitude of these stories&mdash;not only helping them gain great popularity among everyday readers but also changing the widespread perceptions of this kind of literature. This entertaining volume brings together four of Lang&rsquo;s collections&mdash;The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, and The Yellow Fairy Book&mdash;totaling more than 150 stories.</div>

The Fairy Books of Many Colors Volume One

<div>Five delightful volumes filled with folklore and fairy tales from around the world for both children and adults. Collected from numerous sources and cultures, the stories in this five-volume set will take readers into worlds of woodcutters and wild animals; magicians and musicians; kings, trolls, and maidens. Consisting of The Pink Fairy Book, The Grey Fairy Book, The Orange Fairy Book, The Olive Fairy Book, and The Lilac Fairy Book, this collection includes tales from Scandinavia, Japan, Sicily, France, Germany, Uganda, Turkey, India, Armenia, Portugal, Ireland, Wales, and more.</div>

The Fairy Books of Many Colors Volume Two

<div>A satirical collection of letters to the great voices of literary history, from Herodotus to Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and more. The Scottish poet and scholar Andrew Lang took a novel approach to literary criticism when he chose to address his comments to authors who could no longer receive them. Beyond both flattery and insult, dead authors proved the ideal subject for the unmitigated honesty of Lang&rsquo;s assessments. First published in 1886, Letters to Dead Authors presents a timeless collection of literary wit. In addressing his subjects, Lang finds pithy ways to skewer their still-living imitators, detractors, and devotees. The volume includes twenty-two letters to authors including Alexandre Dumas, Moli&egrave;re, Edgar Allan Poe, Percy Shelley, Robert Burns, and many others.</div>

Letters to Dead Authors

<div>The renowned Scottish poet and folklorist recounts the Homeric legends of the Trojan War, the wanderings of Ulysses, and more. Andrew Lang was one of the most accomplished poets and literary scholars of thenineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His classic collections of fairy tales have been enjoyed by generations of young readers. In Tales of Troy and Greece, he brings the same nuanced yet accessible style to the stories of Ancient Greek heroes, gods, goddesses, and monsters. An expert in classic mythology, Lang brings a depth of knowledge as well as a poet&rsquo;s ear to the stories of Achilles, Ulysses, Agamemnon, Calypso, Medusa, the Minotaur, and many other legendary characters.</div>

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