The Orange Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
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About This Book
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these 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...
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- THE ORANGE FAIRY BOOK
- Edited by Andrew Lang
- Preface
- THE ORANGE FAIRY BOOK
- The Story of the Hero Makoma
- From the Senna (Oral Tradition)
- The Magic Mirror
- [Native Rhodesian Tale.]
- Story of the King Who Would See Paradise
- How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu
- [A Pathan story told to Major Campbell.]
- Ian, the Soldier’s Son
- [Mashona Story.]
- The Fox and the Wolf
- [From Tales of the West Highlands.]
- How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon
- [From Cuentos Populares, por Antonio de Trueba.]
- The Ugly Duckling
- [From Tales of the West Highlands.]
- The Two Caskets
- [Hans Andersen.]
- The Goldsmith’s Fortune
- [From Thorpe’s Yule-Tide Stories.]
- The Enchanted Wreath
- [Told by a Pathan to Major Campbell.]
- The Foolish Weaver
- [Adapted from Thorpe’s Yule-Tide Stories.]
- The Clever Cat
- [From the Pushto.]
- The Story of Manus
- [Adapted from Contes Berberes.]
- Pinkel the Thief
- [Shortened from West Highland Tales.]
- The Adventures of a Jackal
- [Thorpe’s Yule-Tide Stories.]
- The Adventures of the Jackal’s Eldest Son
- [Nouveaux Contes Berberes, par Rene Basset.]
- The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal
- [Contes Berberes.]
- The Three Treasures of the Giants
- [Contes Berberes, par Rene Basset.]
- The Rover of the Plain
- [From Contes Populaires Slaves, par Louis Leger.]
- The White Doe
- [From L’Etude Ethnographique sur les Baronga, par Henri Junod.]
- The Girl-Fish
- [Contes des Fees, par Madame d’Aulnoy.]
- The Owl and the Eagle
- The Frog and the Lion Fairy
- [From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute.]
- The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired
- [From Les Contes des Fees, par Madame d’Aulnoy.]
- The Princess Bella-Flor
- [Taken from a Celtic Story. Translated by Doctor Macleod Clarke.]
- The Bird of Truth
- [From Cuentos, Oraciones, y Adivinas, por Fernan Caballero.]
- The Mink and the Wolf
- [From Cuentos, Oraciones y Adivinas, por Fernan Caballero.]
- Adventures of an Indian Brave
- [From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute.]
- How the Stalos Were Tricked
- [From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute.]
- Andras Baive
- [From Lapplandische Marchen, J. C. Poestion.]
- The White Slipper
- [From Lapplandische Mahrchen, J. C. Poestion.]
- The Magic Book
- [From Capullos de Rosa, por D. Enrique Ceballos Quintana.]
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