A collection of fairy tales from writer Andrew Lang. These fairy tales have delighted generations of readers around the world. The Langs Fairy Booksare a series of 25 collections of true and fictionalstories for childrenpublished between1889and1913byAndrew Langand his wife,Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The bestknown books of the series are the 12 collections offairy talesalso known asAndrew Langs "Coloured" Fairy BooksorAndrew Langs Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153poemsinThe Blue Poetry Book.Leonora Blanche Alleyne (18511933) was an Englishauthor,editor, andtranslator. Known to her family and friends as Nora, she assumed editorial control of the series in the 1890s, while her husband, Andrew Lang (18441912), aScotspoet,novelist, andliterary critic, edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run. According toAnita Silvey, "The irony of Langs life and work is that although he wrote for a professionliterary criticism fiction poems books and articles onanthropology,mythology, history, andtravel... he is best recognized for the works he didnotwrite." The authorship and translation of theColoured Fairy Booksare often and incorrectly attributed to Andrew Lang alone. Nora is not named on the front cover or spines of any of the Coloured Fairy Books, which all tout Andrew as their editor. However, as Andrew acknowledges in a preface toThe Lilac Fairy Book(1910), "The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang,...

Binding: Hardcover;496 pages; Publisher: The Three Little Sisters; Classification: N/A; Weight: 949.62 g; Dimensions: N/A

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