Andrew Gabriel Lang was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and a contributor to anthropology.
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He now is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. A gifted student and avid reader, Lang went to the prestigious St Andrews University now holding a lecture series in his honour every few years and then to Balliol College, Oxford. He would later write about the city in Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes, published in Moving to London at the age of 31, already a published poet, he started working as a journalist. His dry sense of humor, writing style and huge array of interests made him a popular editor and columnist and he was soon writing for The Daily Post, Time magazine and Fortnightly Review.
It was whilst working in London that he met and married his wife Leonore Blanche Alleyne. Amongst the most famous of Andrew Lang books are The Rainbow Fairy Books, growing from Lang's interest in myths and folklore which continued to grow as he and Leonore traveled through France and Italy hearing local legends. In the late 19th century, interest in the native fairy tales of Britain had declined and there were very few books recounting them for young readers. In fact, fairy tales and magical stories, in general, were being attacked by some educationalists as being harmful to children.
It was to challenge this notion that Lang first began collecting fairy stories for the first of his colored fairy books, The Blue Fairy Book. Whilst other folklorists collected stories directly from source, Lang set about gathering those stories which had already been recorded. This gave him time to collect a much greater breadth of fairy tales from all over the world, most from well-known writers such as the Brothers Grimm, Madame d'Aulnoy and others from less well-known sources.
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Whilst Lang also worked as the editor for his work and is often credited as its sole creator, the support of his wife, who transcribed and organized the translation of the text, was essential to the work's success. Kindle Edition File Size: Dover Publications 30 January Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. These are the refreshingly original versions, in all their straightforward, sometimes violent, glory.
Not all fairy tales are the sappy sweet rewritten Disney rip-off versions. All in all, I do recommend this book for literary and psychological research, and for the fun of it if you are so inclined. As a young girl, I loved Andrew Lang's fairy books.
My mom had the Olive Fairy Book, which she had received as a gift from an old college friend. I spent hours reading the stories it contained, over and over. I sought out other books from the series at my school library and checked them out regularly. The tales are marvelous, the illustrations beautiful, and the imagination they together spur priceless.
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Andrew Lang and the translators that worked with him have held me in their thrall for all of these years. The influence they've had on my life and imagination has been more than powerful.
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When I need a bit of inspiration, the Andrew Lang fairy series is one of the first places I go. That Dover has provided these beautiful reproductions is a huge gift to the world, one from which I've long benefited. My mom asked for this book for Christmas and wanted the original illustrations and this edition was the closest I could find. While the story and the art were right, the drawings were smaller than the original version. Famous Books for Young Americans. Fairy Tales of the British Empire.
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The King of the Polar Bears. Woof the Polar Bear. The Black Bull of Norroway. The King of Quok. The Chief Counselor of Quok. Mary Ann Brodjinsky de la Porkus.
The Slave of the Royal Bedstead. The Tenement Glass Blower. The Clown of Thingamajigs. The Monkey of Thingamajigs. The Queen of the Hippopotamus. Uncle Nep the Hippopotamus. The Bear of Thingamajigs. The Leopard of Thingamajigs.
Dover Children's Classics: The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (1966, Paperback)
The Donkey of Thingamajigs. The King of the Knooks. Uncle Nikki the Hippopotamus. Related places England, UK.