Description
By: Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang is a delightful collection of fairy tales that will delight readers of all ages. Each story is beautifully written and captures the imagination with its vivid imagery and magical settings. From talking animals to clever princesses, the characters in these stories are captivating and enchanting.
Lang’s retellings of classic fairy tales are both faithful to the original source material and infused with his own unique style. The language is rich and evocative, drawing readers into a world of fantasy and wonder. The stories are engaging and thought-provoking, with valuable lessons to be learned from each one.
Overall, The Green Fairy Book is a timeless collection of tales that will appeal to readers of all ages. Whether you’re looking for a charming bedtime story or a magical escape from reality, this book has something for everyone. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys fairy tales and fantasy literature.
Book Description:
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang’s “Coloured” Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d’Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.
“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.”
Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb-Hood also contributed some illustrations.
