The Lilac Fairy Book : (Illustrations and Audio Book)

The Lilac Fairy Book is one of the superb fairy tale book edited and collected into one volume by Andrew Lang. Stories from a variety of countries are included, and randomly put together rather than organized by country.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Booksalso known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colorsare a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own color. In all, 437 tales from a broad range of cultures and countries are presented.

Andrew Lang (18441912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. Although he did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originallywith the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoymade the collections immensely influential. Lang gave many of the tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories.

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