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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.
The Strange Story Book contains thirty-four stories on a variety of subjects, including ghost stories, Native American legends, true stories, and tales from Washington Irving.
Storied Included Within This Book:
The Drowned Buccaneer
The Perplexity of Zadig
The Return of the Dead Wife
Young Amazon Snell
The Good Sir James
Rip van Winkle
The Wonderful Basket
The Escape of the Galley-slaves
The Beaver and the Porcupine
An Old-world Ghost
The Gentleman Highwayman
The Vision of the Pope
Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother
The Handless Brigade
The Son of the Wolf Chief
Blind Jack of Knaresborough
Blind Jack Again
The Story of Djun
What Became of Owen Parfitt?
Blackskin
The Pets of Aurore Dupin
The Trials of M. Deschartres
Aurore at Play
How Aurore learned to Ride
Land-Otter the Indian
The Disinheriting of a Son
The Siege of Rhodes
The Princess of Babylon
The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son
The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning
Mrs. Veal's Ghost
The Chief's Daughter
The Boyhood of a Painter
The Adventures of a Spanish Nun
The Strange Story Book contains thirty-four stories on a variety of subjects, including ghost stories, Native American legends, true stories, and tales from Washington Irving.
Storied Included Within This Book:
The Drowned Buccaneer
The Perplexity of Zadig
The Return of the Dead Wife
Young Amazon Snell
The Good Sir James
Rip van Winkle
The Wonderful Basket
The Escape of the Galley-slaves
The Beaver and the Porcupine
An Old-world Ghost
The Gentleman Highwayman
The Vision of the Pope
Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother
The Handless Brigade
The Son of the Wolf Chief
Blind Jack of Knaresborough
Blind Jack Again
The Story of Djun
What Became of Owen Parfitt?
Blackskin
The Pets of Aurore Dupin
The Trials of M. Deschartres
Aurore at Play
How Aurore learned to Ride
Land-Otter the Indian
The Disinheriting of a Son
The Siege of Rhodes
The Princess of Babylon
The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son
The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning
Mrs. Veal's Ghost
The Chief's Daughter
The Boyhood of a Painter
The Adventures of a Spanish Nun
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About the Author:
Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1546694072
- ISBN 13 9781546694076
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages134
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