This book holds some of the folktales form the Arabian Nights Entertainments.Selected and edited by Andrew Lang, these folktales are simplified and shortened, making them more suitable for...
A collection of traditional fairy tales from the folklore of Russia, Germany, France, Iceland, and America. Includes original 138 black-and-white illustrations. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries...
The Olive Fairy Book contains eight Punjabi tales, five from Armenia, 16 other stories from Turkey, Denmark, the Sudan, and more.
An enchanting world of flying dragons, ogres, fairies, and princes transformed into white foxes with illustrations by...
In this volume there are stories from the natives of Rhodesia, collected by Mr. Fairbridge, who speaks the native language, and one is brought by Mr. Cripps from another part of Africa, Uganda. Three tales from the Punjaub were collected and...
The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is...
Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both mono-tonous and unavailing. A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales,...
For this collection, Andrew Lang gathered African, Scandinavian, Egyptian and even Babylonian stoires.
While they may not be familiar to you, they are an excellent insight into various cultures, to show that despite our skin color, we all share...
The stories, as usual, illustrate the method of popular fiction. A certain number of incidents are shaken into many varying combinations, like the fragments of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope. Probably the possible combinations, like possible...
For this collection, Andrew Lang gathered Danish, Swedish, Sicilian, African, Catalan, Japanese, German, and French stories.
While the stories may not be familiar to you, they are an excellent insight into various cultures, to show that despite our...