The Violet Fairy Book (Dover Children's Classics) - Softcover

Lang, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486216756 ISBN 13: 9780486216751

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1966

Synopsis

Roumania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Perhaps the best English versions available of these classic stories. 74 illustrations.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture On Fairy-Stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0486216756
• ISBN 13: 9780486216751
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416