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The Grey Fairy Book (#6) by Andrew Lang

The Grey Fairy Book (#6) by Andrew Lang

Dover

MSRP: $14.95
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UPC:
9780486217918
Condition:
New
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Format:
Paperback
Reading Level:
Ages 8-14
Pages:
416
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Publication Date:
1967
Language:
English
ISBN:
0486217914

From the publisher:

It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. The goat-faced girl, Prunella, the three sons of Hali, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres--these are the companions who thrill boys and girls of all lands and all times, as Andrew Lang's phenomenally successful collections of stories have proved. From the day that they were first printed, Lang's fairy tale books of many colors have entertained thousands of youngsters, as they have also brought pleasure to the parents who have read these classics to their children.

The Grey Fairy Book includes many strange, exotic stories from Lithuania, Africa, Germany, Greece and France. But they are all told in the common language of the fairy tale, and their events will be familiar to children and grown-ups alike. The donkey who turns into a price, a spinning wheel that turns moss into silk, revengeful fairies, and ogre-like fathers of lovely daughters strike responsive chords in readers, even when they appear in new circumstances.

All in all, this collection contains 35 stories, all narrated in the lively, clear prose for which Lang was famous. Not only are Lang's generally conceded to be the best English versions of standard stories, his collections are the richest and widest in range. His position as one of England's foremost folklorists as well as his first-rate literary abilities make his collections unmatchable in the English language.

Table of Contents:

  • Donkey Skin
  • The Goblin Pony
  • An Impossible Enchantment
  • The Story of Dschemil and Dschemila
  • Janni and the Draken
  • The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar
  • Fortunatus and 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

 

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