The Orange Fairy Book

By Andrew Lang and Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang

Book Overview

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He made most of the selections, while his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories, as acknowledged in the prefaces. Four of the volumes from 1908 to 1912 were published by "Mrs. Lang". According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession-literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1723333026
• ISBN13: 9781723333026
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

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I totally loved this collection! Lang really gathered a wide spectrum of folklore for this, even to the point of slight classic Victorian racism. But very much an awesome collection, and many of them did not follow the traditional fairy tale plot.

The Orange Fairy Book

Bought this with other books in the same series. I will eventually have the whole collection that I plan to display in my dining room. I hope that my grand-children will find the same joy and escape that I did as a child through this series of books.

Good To Read With A Cup Of Tea

I find this book to be one of the best fairy tale books I've ever read. The illustrations are simply beautiful! The different plots and twists for each tale are interesting.

Multicultural before it was a buzzword

Lang was one of the first editors to collect multicultural fairy tales into one volume for readers. The Orange Fairy Book offers tales from many cultures. Included tales are The Girl-Fish, How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu, How the Stalos Were Tricked, The Adventures of a Jackal, Story of the King Who Would See Paradise, and many others. I have enjoyed the colored fairy books for years. Don't miss the great illustrations either.