Samba The Coward

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 20 July 1912) is well-known as a collector of British folk and fairy tales, but he was a Victorian poet, novelist, academic and critic too. His poem had success, but he became famous published Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors series of twelve different colored collections of fairy tales books (1889-1910). It includes 437 tales from different countries and different cultures.
Samba the Coward is a fairy tale published by Andrew Lang in The Olive Fairy Book in1907. On the side of the river Nile was the great country, there lived a king and his son called Samba. People of this country were brave and strong, but Samba, from the time he could walk, being afraid of everything. He had become a tall and strong youth, but his fears didn't vanish. What will happen with a young man who is such a coward one? Will he be able became brave, and who can help for his?

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