ISBN:
9781775410164
,
9781775567769
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (492 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Lilac Fairy Book
DDC:
398.072
Keywords:
Folklore ; Fiction
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Fairy tales
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the
Description / Table of Contents:
Title; Contents; Preface; The Shifty Lad; The False Prince and the True; The Jogi's Punishment; The Heart of a Monkey; The Fairy Nurse; A Lost Paradise; How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves; The King of the Waterfalls; A French Puck; The Three Crowns; The Story of a Very Bad Boy; The Brown Bear of Norway; Little Lasse; 'Moti'; The Enchanted Deer; A Fish Story; The Wonderful Tune.; The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother; The One-Handed Girl; The Bones of Djulung; The Sea King's Gift; The Raspberry Worm; The Stones of Plouhinec; The Castle of Kerglas; The Battle of the Birds; The Lady of the Fountain.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Four GiftsThe Groac'h of the Isle of Lok; The Escape of the Mouse; The Believing Husbands; The Hoodie-Crow.; The Brownie of the Lake; The Winning of Olwen; Endnotes;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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