| The Yellow Fairy Book Contributor(s): Lang, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1539091775 ISBN-13: 9781539091776 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.11 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
| Dewey: 398.2 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.49 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve 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. 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 retelling of the actual stories. 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." The books were primarily illustrated by Henry J. Ford. Lancelot Speed, G. P. Jacomb-Hood, and A. Wallis Mills also contributed some illustrations |