The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew LANG (1844 - 1912)
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions, Aug. 16, 2017)
The Blue Fairy Book written and published in 1889 is a book of selective fairy tales, stories from the Brother Grimm, Madame d’Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights, and Norwegian fairy tales, and many others. The Blue Fairy Book is the first volume in the fairy tale series, it has some of the famous tales, from many different bases. It consists of tales such as The Bronze Ring, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Yellow Dwarf, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, Rumpelstiltskin, Beauty and the Beast, The Master Maid, Why the Sea Is Salt, The Master Cat or Puss in Boots, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, The White Cat, The Water-lily. The Gold-spinners, The Terrible Head, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, The History of Whittington, The Wonderful Sheep, Little Thumb, The Forty Thieves, Hansel and Gretel. Snow-White and Rose-Red, The Goose-girl, Toads and Diamonds, Prince Darling, Blue Beard, Trusty John, The Brave Little Tailor, A Voyage to Lilliput, The Princess on the Glass Hill, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, The Black Bull of Norroway, and The Red Etin. The Blue Fairy Book was collected and written by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist. He is famous for his collection of both folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. He is best known for his stories on folklore, mythology, and religion. He was inspired in writing folklore in his childhood years because of John Ferguson McLennan and Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. In his book of Myth, Ritual and Religion, he narrated the unintelligible facets of mythology as a constancy from more basic strategies.