Books in Andrew Lang, Fairy Books series

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. The Olive Fairy Book includes unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France. Stories Included Within This Book: Madschun The Blue Parrot Geirlug The King's Daughter The Story of Little King Loc A Long-Bow Story Jackal or Tiger? The Comb and the Collar The Thanksgiving of the Wazir Samba the Coward Kupti and Imani The Strange Adventures of Little Maia Diamond Cut Diamond The Green Knight The Five Wise Words of the Guru The Golden-Headed Fish Dorani The Satin Surgeon The Billy Goat and the King The Story of Zoulvisia Grasp All, Lose All The Fate of the Turtle The Snake Prince The Prince and the Princess in the Forest The Clever Weaver The Boy Who Found Fear At Last He Wins Who Waits The Steel Cane The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana The Silent Princess

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. The Red Romance Book contains twenty-nine stories from various medieval and Renaissance romances of chivalry, adapted for children. Includes stories about Don Quixote, Charlemagne, Bevis of Hampton and Guy of Warwick. Stories Included Within This Book: How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf The Disenchantment of the Werwolf The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands The Death of Gunnar Njal's Burning The Lady of Solace Una and the Lion How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon Amys and Amyle The Tale of the Cid The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights The Helmet of Mambrino How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle Don Quixote's Home-coming The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies How Oberon saved Huon Havelok and Goldborough Cupid and Psyche Sir Bevis the Strong Ogier the Dane How the Ass became a Man again Guy of Warwick How Bradamante conquered the Wizard The Ring of Bradamante The Fulfilling of the Prophecy The Knight of the Sun How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father

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. The Blue Poetry Book contains 153 poems by great English and American poets. Poems Included Within This Book: A Red, Red Rose Annan Water Battle of Otterbourne Cherry Ripe The Demon Lover Helen of Kirkconnel Kinmont Willie Lawlands of Holland Lyke-Wake Dirge Mary Ambree Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter Sir Patrick Spens The Twa Corbies The Wife of Usher’s Well Willie Drowned in Yarrow The Nightingale Night Nurse's Song The Chimney-sweeper The Lamb To Flush, my Dog To a Waterfowl The Pilgrim Leader Haughs Bannockburn I Love my Jean O, wert Thou in the Cauld Blast The Banks o' Doon The Farewell There'll never be Peace till Jamie comes Hame Could Love for Ever, Run like a River So, we'll go no more a Roving Stanzas written on the Road between Florence and Pisa The Destruction of Sennacherib Hohenlinden Lord Ullin's Daughter The Battle of the Baltic The Last Man The Soldier's Dream Ye Mariners of England Christabel Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Ode written in MDCCXLVI To Evening Boadicea Epitaph on a Hare John Gilpin On a Spaniel called 'Beau' Killing a Young Bird The Dog and the Water-lily The Poplar Field The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk Tom Bowling Ballad of Agincourt Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music The Flowers o' the Forest Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The Bard To Blossoms To Daffodils Morning A Boy's Song The Skylark A Lake and a Fairy Boat I Remember, I Remember Hymn to Diana La Belle Dame Sans Mercy On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Winter Hester The Child and the Snake Rose Aylmer Auld Robin Gray The Beleaguered City The Day is Done The Fire of Drift-wood The Village Blacksmith The Wreck of the Hesperus To Althea from Prison To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Ivry The Armada The Battle of Naseby The Passionate Shepherd to his Love Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda The Girl Describes her Fawn Cumnor Hall L'Allegro Il Penseroso Lycidas On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity As Slow our Ship The Light of Other Days The Harp that once through Tara’s Halls The Minstrel-Boy The Land o' the Leal Spring War-song of Dinas Vawr Annabel Lee The Haunted Palace The Sleeper The Valley of Unrest To Helen To One in Paradise Ulalume The Red Fisherman; or, the Devil’s Decoy A Weary Lot is Thine, Fair Maid Alice Brand Allen-a-Dale County Guy Evening Gathering Song of Donald Dhu Hunting Song Hymn for the Dead Jock of Hazeldean Lucy Ashton's Song Nora's Vow Proud Maisie Rosabelle St. Swithin's Chair The Cavalier The Eve of St. John The Outlaw The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill Twist ye, Twine ye Where Shall the Lover Rest? Young Lochinvar A Sea Dirge Fidele Orpheus with his Lute Where the Bee Sucks, there Suck I Who is Silvia? What is she Winter Arethusa To a Skylark The Recollection Death the Leveller Sleep Barthram's Dirge The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna To Mary I Wandered Lonely Lucy Gray; or, Solitude On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford for Naples, 1831 ...and many more!

Andrew Lang's - The Blue Fairy Book. The first volume in Lang's fairy tale series features some of the finest stories from around the world, most of well known favorites: 37 in all, including "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "The Arabian Nights," "Beauty and the Beast," "Hansel and Gretel,", "Sleeping Beauty," "Jack the Giantkiller," and "Puss in Boots." Each chapter contains one of the original illustrations from the 1891 edition.

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. The Book of Romance contains nineteen stories from various medieval and Renaissance romances of chivalry, adapted for children. Includes stories about King Arthur, Charlemagne, William of Orange, and Robin Hood. Stories Included Within This Book: The Drawing of the Sword The Questing Beast The Sword Excalibur The Story of Sir Balin How the Round Table began The Passing of Merlin How Morgan Le Fay tried to kill King Arthur What Beaumains asked of the King The Quest of the Holy Graal The Fight for the Queen The Fair Maid of Astolat Lancelot and Guenevere The End of it All The Battle of Roncevalles The Pursuit of Diarmid Some Adventures of William Short Nose Wayland the Smith The Story of Robin Hood The Story of Grettir the Strong

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. Roumania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories from The Violet Fairy Book that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Stories Included Within This Book: A Tale Of the Tontlawald The Finest Liar in the World The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars Schippeitaro The Three Princes and their Beasts The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples The Lute Player The Grateful Prince The Child who came from an Egg Stan Bolovan The Two Frogs The Story of a Gazelle How a Fish swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water Two in a Sack The Envious Neighbour The Fairy of the Dawn The Enchanted Knife Jesper Who Herded the Hares The Underground Workers The History of Dwarf Long Nose The Nunda, Eater of People The Story of Hassebu The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet The Monkey and the Jelly-fish The Headless Dwarfs The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened The Boys with the Golden Stars The Frog The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground The Girl Who Pretended to be a Boy The Story of Halfman The Prince Who Wanted to See the World Virgilius the Sorcerer Mogarzea and his Son

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. The Red Book of Animal Stories contains forty-six stories about real and mythical animals. Some of them are simple accounts of how animals live in the wild. Others are stories about pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions. Stories Included Within This Book: The Phœnix Griffins and Unicorns About Ants, Amphisbænas, and Basilisks Dragons The Story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's Mother The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake A Fox Tale An Egyptian Snake Charmer An Adventure of Gérard, the Lion Hunter Pumas and Jaguars in South America Mathurin and Mathurine Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine The Homes of the Vizcachas Guanacos: Living and Dying In the American Desert The Story of Jacko II 'Princess' The Lion and the Saint The Further Adventures of 'Tom,' a Bear, in Paris Recollections of a Lion Tamer Sheep Farming on the Border When the World was Young Bats and Vampires The Ugliest Beast in the World The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon Greyhounds and their Masters The Great Father, and Snakes' Ways Elephant Shooting Hyenas and Children A Fight with a Hippopotamus Kanny, the Kangaroo Collies, or Sheep Dogs Two Big Dogs and a Little One Crocodile Stories Lion-Hunting and Lions On the Trail of a Man-eater Greyhounds and their Arab Masters The Life and Death of Pincher A Boar Hunt by Moonlight Thieving Dogs and Horses To the Memory of Squouncer How Tom the Bear was born a Frenchman Charley Fairy Rings; and the Fairies who make them How the Reindeer Live The Cow and the Crocodile

This book forms part of Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books series – a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own colour, and all in all, 437 tales from a wide array of cultures and countries are presented. Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist and literary critic, with a passion for folkloric story telling. Most of his volumes (including this, the 'Red Fairy Book') were beautifully illustrated by Henry J. Ford (1860 - 1941), an inordinately talented artist who came to public attention with his illustrations for Lang. The books captured the imagination of British children, and later became worldwide bestsellers in the 1880s and 1890s. This 'Red Book' contains such classic fairy tales as, 'Rapunzel', 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'The Wonderful Birch', 'The Three Dwarfs', 'The Golden Goose', and many more.

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. The All Sorts of Stories Book contains thirty stories on a variety of subjects, including true stories, Greek myths, and stories from Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe. Stories Included Within This Book: How a Boy became first a Lamb and then an Apple The Battle of the White Bull The Serpents' Gift Meleager the Hunter The Vanishing of Bathurst In the Shadow of the Guillotine The Flight of the King The Real Robinson Crusoe How the Russian Soldier was Saved Marbot and the Young Cossack Heracles the Dragon-Killer Old Jeffery The Adventures of a Prisoner What became of Old Mr. Harrison? Aunt Margaret's Mirror The Prisoner of the Chateau d'lf The Hunt for the Treasure The Story of the Gold Beetle Loreta Velazquez, the Military Spy The Farmer's Dream The Sword of D'Artagnan The Bastion Saint-Gervais Little General Monk The Horse with Wings The Prize of Jeanne Jugan Unlucky John How the Siamese Ambassadors reached the Cape The Strange Tale of Ambrose Gwinett With the Redskins The Wreck of the 'Drake'

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. The Red Book of Heroes was published by Longmans as written by "Mrs. Lang"; illustrated by H. J. Ford and contains twelve true stories about role models for children, including Hannibal, Florence Nightingale, and Saint Thomas More. Stories Included Within This Book: The Lady-in-Chief Prisoners and Captives Hannibal The Apostle of the Lepers The Constant Prince The Marquis of Montrose A Child's Hero Conscience or King The Little Abbess Gordon The Crime of Theodosius Palissy the Potter

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. The Book of Princes and Princesses contains fourteen stories about the childhoods of European monarchs, including Napoleon, Elizabeth I, and Frederick the Great. Stories Included Within This Book: Napoleon His Majesty the King of Rome The Princess Jeanne Hacon the King Mi Reina! Mi Reina! Henriette the Siege Baby The Red Rose The White Rose Richard the Fearless Frederick and Wilhelmine Une Reine Malheureuse The 'Little Queen' Two Little Girls and their Mother The Troubles of the Princess Elizabeth

Volume 2 of Andrew Lang's classic Fairy Books Series (also known as the Fairy Books of Many Colors series), collecting treasured and beloved stories from around the world. This volume features the following tales: The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Princess Mayblossom, Soria Moria Castle, The Death Of Koshchei The Deathless, The Black Thief And Knight Of The Glen., The Master Thief, Brother And Sister, Princess Rosette, The Norka, The Wonderful Birch, Jack And The Beanstalk, The Little Good Mouse, Graciosa And Percinet, The Three Princesses Of Whiteland, The Voice Of Death, The Six Sillies, Kari Woodengown, Drakestail, The Ratcatcher, The True History Of Little Golden Hood, The Golden Branch, , The Three Dwarfs, Dapplegrim, The Enchanted Canary, The Twelve Brothers, Rapunzel, The Nettle Spinner, Farmer Weatherbeard, Mother Holle, Minnikin, Bushy Bride, Snowdrop, The Golden Goose, The Seven Foals, The Marvellous Musician, and The Story Of Sigurd.