The Grey Fairy Book
Andrew LANG (1844 - 1912)
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions, Sept. 3, 2017)
Written and published in 1900, the Grey Fairy Book is a collection of fairy tales. It is composed of 35 stories, a number from verbal traditions, and all others from French, German, Italian, among other sources of wonderful fairy tales. The Grey Fairy Book consists of tales including Donkey Skin, The Goblin Pony, An Impossible Enchantment, The Story of Dschemil and Dachemila, Janni and the Draken, The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar, Fortunatusand his Purse, The Goat-faced Girl, What came of picking Flowers, The Story of Bensurdatu, The Magician's Horse, The Little Gray Man, Herr Lazarus and the Draken, The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The White Wolf, Mohammed with the Magic Finger, Bobino, The Dog and the Sparrow, The Story of the Three Sons of Hali, The Story of the Fair Circassians, The Jackal and the Spring, The Bear, The Sunchild, The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch, Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox, The Unlooked for Prince, The Simpleton, The Street Musicians, The Twin Brothers, Cannetella, The Ogre, A Fairy's Blunder, Long, Broad, and Quickeye, and Prunella. The Green 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. He was a co-founder of psychical research and some anthropology records.