Andrew lang books
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The Langs' Fairy Books
1889 to 1913 books by the Langs
Rumpelstiltskin from The Blue Fairy Book, illustrated by Henry J. Ford. | |
The Blue Fairy Book The Red Fairy Book The Blue Poetry Book The Green Fairy Book The True Story Book The Yellow Fairy Book The Red True Story Book The Animal Story Book The Pink Fairy Book The Arabian Nights' Entertainments The Red Book of Animal Stories The Grey Fairy Book The Violet Fairy Book The Book of Romance The Crimson Fairy Book The Brown Fairy Book The Red Romance Book The Orange Fairy Book The Olive Fairy Book The Red Book of Heroes The Lilac Fairy Book The All Sorts of Stories Book The Book of Saints and Heroes The Strange Story Book | |
| Author | Andrew Lang Nora Lang |
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| Illustrator | Henry J. Ford (and others) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fairy tales |
| Published | 1889–1913 |
| No. of books | 25 |
The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife
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This site is dedicated to the recovery of Andrew Lang’s writings, particularly Lang’s periodical writings. Although print-on-demand publishing, the publication of two editions of selections from Lang’s critical writings (and one of his selected children’s fiction), and the digitization of many Victorian periodicals have made Andrew Lang’s writing more accessible today than it has ever been since his death, the volume of Lang’s work and his occasionally shifting views can make him a difficult critic with whom to engage. It is hoped that this site will make Lang’s work more approachable for scholars and other interested readers.
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844–20 July 1912) was a polymath. Educated at the University of St Andrews, the University of Glasgow (for a year, in order to earn the Snell Exhibition to Balliol College), and in Oxford, he was a fellow at Merton College from 1868–1875, when he moved to London and took up journalism. (He married Leonora Blanche Alleyne at this time. Merton had already rescinded the policy that fellows be u
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Andrew Lang
Scottish author and critic (1844–1912)
For other people named Andrew Lang, see Andrew Lang (disambiguation).
Andrew LangFBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
Biography
Lang was born in 1844 in Selkirk, Scottish Borders. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick sellar, factor to the first Duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Colour/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.[1]
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto School, and the Edinburgh Academy, as well as the University of St Andrews and Balliol C
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