''The Langs' Fairy Books'' are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional
stories for children published between
1889
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...
and
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
by
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University ...
and his wife,
Leonora Blanche Alleyne
Leonora Blanche "Nora" Lang (''née'' Alleyne; 8 March 1851 – 10 July 1933) was an English author, editor, and translator. She is best known as variously the translator, collaborator and writer of ''Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, The Fairy Books' ...
. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of
fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical ...
s also 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
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in a ...
in ''The Blue Poetry Book''.
Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851–1933) was an English
author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
,
editor
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, and
translator
Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ...
. Known to her family and friends as Nora, she assumed editorial control of the series in the 1890s, while her husband, Andrew Lang (1844–1912), a
Scots poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
,
novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...
, and
literary critic
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...
, edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run.
According to
Anita Silvey
Anita Silvey is an author, editor, and literary critic in the genre of children’s literature. Born in 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Silvey has served as Editor-in-Chief of ''The Horn Book Magazine'' and as vice-president at Houghton Mifflin ...
, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on
anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...
,
mythology
Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrat ...
, history, and
travel
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... he is best recognized for the works he did ''not'' write."
The authorship and translation of the ''
Coloured Fairy Books'' is often and incorrectly attributed to Lang's husband alone. Nora is not named on the front cover or spines of any of the Coloured Fairy Books, which all tout Andrew as their editor. However, as Andrew acknowledges in a preface to ''The Lilac Fairy Book'' (1910), "The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages."
Although Andrew is often credited with selecting the stories in the ''Fairy Books'', most of the work was done by Nora. She and a team of other writers, who were mostly women and included
May Kendall
May Kendall (born Emma Goldworth Kendall; 1861 – 1943) was an English poet, novelist, and satirist. She is best known as the co-author of the novel ''That Very Mab'' and the poetry collections ''Dreams to Sell'' and ''Songs from Dreamland''. ...
and
Violet Hunt
Isobel Violet Hunt (28 September 1862 – 16 January 1942) was a British author and literary hostess. She wrote feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and participated in the founding of International PEN.
Bio ...
, translated these into English and adapted them to suit Victorian and Edwardian notions of propriety. Nora's collaboration is first credited in ''The Green Fairy Book'', the third in the series, and from this point on she writes most of the retellings, usually credited as "Mrs. Lang". Further volumes of stories published from 1908 to 1912 are credited as written by "Mrs. Lang", such as ''The Red Book of Heroes'' (1909) and ''The Book''
The ''12 Coloured Fairy Books'' were illustrated by
Henry Justice Ford
Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous b ...
, with credit for the first two volumes shared by
G. P. Jacomb-Hood and
Lancelot Speed
Lancelot Speed (13 June 1860 – 31 December 1931) was a coastal painter and a British illustrator of books in the Victorian era, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature. He is probably most well known for his illustrations for Andrew L ...
, respectively.
A. Wallis Mills also contributed some illustrations.
''The Fairy Books''
Origin and influence
![Illustration by H](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Illustration_by_H._J._Ford_for_Andrew_Lang%27s_The_Orange_Fairy_Book.jpg)
The best-known volumes of the series are the 12 ''Fairy Books'', each of which is distinguished by its own color. The Langs did not collect any fairy tales from
oral
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Relating to the mouth
* Relating to the mouth, the first portion of the alimentary canal that primarily receives food and liquid
**Oral administration of medicines
** Oral examination (also known as an oral exam or oral ...
primary source
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s, yet only they and
Madame d'Aulnoy
Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1651 – 14 January 1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French author known for her literary fairy tales. When she termed her works ''contes de fées'' (fairy tales), sh ...
(1651–1705) have collected tales from such a large variety of sources. These collections have been immensely influential; the Langs gave many of the tales their first appearance in English. Andrew selected the tales for the first four books, while Nora took over the series thereafter. She and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories.
Lang's urge to gather and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the
Anglo-Scottish border
The Anglo-Scottish border () is a border separating Scotland and England which runs for 96 miles (154 km) between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west. The surrounding area is sometimes referred to ...
. British fairy tale collections were rare at the time;
Dinah Craik
Dinah Maria Craik (; born Dinah Maria Mulock, often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik; 20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel ''John Halifax, Gentleman'', which presents the ...
's ''The Fairy Book'' (1869) was a lonely precedent. According to Roger Lancelyn Green, Lang "was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day" who judged the traditional tales' "unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age". Over a generation, Lang's books worked a revolution in this public perception.
The series was immensely popular, helped by Lang's reputation as a
folklorist
Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...
and by the packaging device of the uniform books. The series proved of great influence in children's literature, increasing the popularity of fairy tales over tales of real life. It inspired such imitators as ''English Fairy Tales'' (1890) and ''More English Fairy Tales'' (1894) by
Joseph Jacobs
Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.
Jacob ...
. Other followers included the American ''The Oak-Tree Fairy Book'' (1905), ''The Elm-Tree Fairy Book'' (1909), and ''The Fir-Tree Fairy Book'' (1912) series edited by Clifton Johnson, and the collections of
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,'' and composed collections of children's ...
and
Nora Archibald Smith
From the cover of Nora Archibald Smith's book ''Boys and Girls of Bookland'' (1923), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Nora Archibald Smith (1859–1934) was an American children's author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and sis ...
.
Sources
Some of Lang's collected stories were included without any attribution at all (e.g., "
The Blue Mountains"), and the rest are listed with brief notes. The sources can be tracked down when given as "
Grimm
Grimm may refer to:
People
* Grimm (surname)
* Brothers Grimm, German linguists
** Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German philologist, jurist and mythologist
** Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm
* Christia ...
" or "
Madame d'Aulnoy
Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1651 – 14 January 1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French author known for her literary fairy tales. When she termed her works ''contes de fées'' (fairy tales), sh ...
" or attributed to a specific collection, but other notes are less helpful. For instance, "
The Wonderful Birch
The Wonderful Birch (russian: Чудесная берёза) is a Finnish/Russian fairy tale. A variant on Cinderella, it is Aarne–Thompson folktale type 510A, the persecuted heroine. It makes use of shapeshifting motifs. Andrew Lang included i ...
" is listed only as "from the
Russo-Karelian". Lang repeatedly explained in the prefaces that the tales which he told were all old and not his, and that he found new fairy tales no match for them:
But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenia
''Gardenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Madagascar and Pacific Islands, and Australia.
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus and John Ellis aft ...
s and apple blossoms: "Flowers and fruits, and other winged things". These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed. Real fairies never preach or talk slang. At the end, the little boy or girl wakes up and finds that he has been dreaming.
Such are the new fairy stories. May we be preserved from all the sort of them!
The collections were specifically intended for children and were
bowdlerised
Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media.
The term ''bowdlerization'' is a pejorative term for the practi ...
, as Lang explained in his prefaces.
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philology, philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''.
From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was ...
stated in his essay "
On Fairy-Stories
"On Fairy-Stories" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy story as a literary form. It was written as a lecture entitled "Fairy Stories" for the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on 8 March 1939. ...
" (1939) that he appreciated the collections but objected to his editing the stories for children. He also criticized Lang for including stories without magical elements in them, with "
The Heart of a Monkey The Heart of a Monkey is a Swahili fairy tale collected by Edward Steere in ''Swahili Tales''.Edward Steere (1870), '' Swahili Tales'', "The Story of the Washerman's Donkey". Andrew Lang included it in ''The Lilac Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thomp ...
" given as an example, where the monkey claims that his heart is outside his body, unlike "
The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body
The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe.
George MacDonald retold it as "The Giant's Heart" in ''Adela Cathcart''. A version of the tale also appears in '' A Book of Giants'' by Ruth Manning ...
" or other similar stories. However, many fairy tale collectors include tales with no strictly marvelous elements.
Books
''The Blue Fairy Book'' (1889)
The first edition consisted of 5,000 copies, which sold for 6
shilling
The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence o ...
s each. The book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the ''
Arabian Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...
'', and four
Norwegian fairytales, among other sources.
“The Blue Fairy Book (1889)”
Mythfolklore.net The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series, and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources.
*"The Bronze Ring
"The Bronze Ring" is the first story in ''The Blue Fairy Book'' by Andrew Lang. According to Lang's preface, this version of this fairy tale from the Middle East or Central Asia was translated and adapted from ''Traditions'' ''Populaires de l'Asie ...
"
*"Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess
''Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess'', a French fairy tale, is the second story in Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book.
Translations
Andrew Lang gave as reference, at the end of the story, the tale of ''Le Prince Desir et la Princesse ...
"
*"East of the Sun and West of the Moon
"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" ( no, Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne) is a Norwegian fairy tale. It was included by Andrew Lang in ''The Blue Fairy Book'' (1890).
"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" was collected by Peter Christen A ...
"
*"The Yellow Dwarf
The Yellow Dwarf (french: Le Nain jaune) is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Blue Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A widowed queen spoiled her only daughter, who was so beautiful that kings vied for th ...
"
*"Little Red Riding Hood
"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th century European folk tales. The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brother ...
"
*"The Sleeping Beauty
''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cu ...
in the Wood"
*"Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...
or the Little Glass Slipper"
*"Aladdin
Aladdin ( ; ar, علاء الدين, ', , ATU 561, ‘Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'' (''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part of ...
and the Wonderful Lamp"
*" The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was"
*"Rumpelstiltskin
"Rumpelstiltskin" ( ; german: Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale. It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of ''Children's and Household Tales''. The story is about a little imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a g ...
"
*"Beauty and the Beast
''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' ( ...
"
*"The Master Maid
"The Master Maid" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their ''Norske Folkeeventyr''. "Master" indicates "superior, skilled." Jørgen Moe wrote the tale down from the storyteller Anne Godlid in Sel ...
"
*" Why the Sea Is Salt"
*"The Master Cat or Puss in Boots
"Puss in Boots" ( it, Il gatto con gli stivali) is an Italian fairy tale, later spread throughout the rest of Europe, about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for hi ...
"
*" Felicia and the Pot of Pinks"
*" The White Cat"
*"The Water-lily. The Gold-spinners
The Gold-spinners ( et, Kullaketrajad; German: ''Die Goldspinnerinnen'') is an Estonian fairy tale collected by Dr. Friedrich Kreutzwald in ''Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed jutud''. W. F. Kirby included it in ''The Hero of Esthonia'', and Andrew Lang ...
"
*" The Terrible Head"
*"The Story of Pretty Goldilocks
The Story of Pretty Goldilocks or The Beauty with Golden Hair is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Blue Fairy Book''.
It is Aarne–Thompson type 531. This type is generally called "The ...
"
*" The History of Whittington"
*"The Wonderful Sheep
''The Ram'' (in French: ''Le Mouton'') is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy.
Alternate names
The title was alternatively translated into English as ''The Royal Ram''.Planché, James Robinson. ''Fairy Tales by The Countess d'Aulnoy, ...
"
*" Little Thumb"
*"The Forty Thieves
''The Forty Thieves'' is a "Pantomime Burlesque" written by Robert Reece, W. S. Gilbert, F. C. Burnand and Henry J. Byron, created in 1878 as a charity benefit, produced by the Beefsteak Club of London. The Beefsteak Club still meets in Irving ...
"
*"Hansel and Gretel
"Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister.
Hansel ...
"
*"Snow-White and Rose-Red
"Snow-White and Rose-Red" (german: Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot) is a German fairy tale. The best-known version is the one collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 161). An older, somewhat shorter version, "The Ungrateful Dwarf", was written by Caroli ...
"
*"The Goose-girl
"The Goose Girl" (german: :de:Die Gänsemagd, Die Gänsemagd) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1815 (KHM 89). It is of Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, Aarne-Thompson type 5 ...
"
*"Toads and Diamonds
Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in ''The Blue Fairy Book''. It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in ''Aunt Louisa's nurs ...
"
*"Prince Darling
Prince Darling (''Prince Chéri'') is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.
Translations
Andrew Lang included a version named ''Prince Darling'' in his Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Blue Fairy Book. He lis ...
"
*"Blue Beard
"Bluebeard" (french: Barbe bleue, ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé''. The tale tells the s ...
"
*"Trusty John
"Trusty John", "Faithful John", "Faithful Johannes", or "John the True" (german: Der treue Johannes) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1819 (KHM 6). Andrew Lang included it in ''The ...
"
*"The Brave Little Tailor
"The Brave Little Tailor" or "The Valiant Little Tailor" or "The Gallant Tailor" (German: ''Das tapfere Schneiderlein'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 20). "The Brave Little Tailor" is a story of Aarne–Thompson T ...
"
*" A Voyage to Lilliput"
*"The Princess on the Glass Hill
"The Princess on the Glass Hill" or The Maiden on the Glass Mountain (Norwegian: ''Jomfruen på glassberget'') is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in ''Norske Folkeeventyr''. It recounts how the youn ...
"
*" The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou"
*" The History of Jack the Giant-killer"
*" The Black Bull of Norroway"
*" The Red Etin"
''The Red Fairy Book'' (1890)
''The Red Fairy Book'' appeared at Christmas 1890 in a first printing of 10,000 copies. Sources include French, Russian
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*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
, Danish
Danish may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
, and Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
tales as well as Norse mythology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period ...
.
*"The Twelve Dancing Princesses
"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" (or "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes" or "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces") (german: Die zertanzten Schuhe) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1815 ( ...
"
*"The Princess Mayblossom
The Princess Mayblossom (''Princesse Printaniére'') is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy in 1697. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A king and queen had lost all their children, and were most anxi ...
"
*"Soria Moria Castle
Soria Moria Castle (''Soria Moria slott'') is a Norwegian fairy tale made famous by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their classical ''Norske Folkeeventyr''. Later Andrew Lang included the story in his series of fairy tale collecti ...
"
*"The Death of Koschei the Deathless
The Death of Koschei the Deathless or Marya Morevna (russian: Марья Моревна) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki'' and included by Andrew Lang in ''The Red Fairy Book''. The character ...
"
*"The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen
The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen is an Irish fairy tale collected in ''Hibernian Tales''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 953 ("The Old Robber Relates Three Adventures").
Synopsis
A dying que ...
"
*"The Master Thief
"The Master Thief" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. The Brothers Grimm included a shorter variant as tale 192 in their fairy tales. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''. George Webbe ...
"
*"Brother and Sister
"Brother and Sister" (also "Little Sister and Little Brother"; German: ''Brüderchen und Schwesterchen'') is a European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 11). It is a tale of Aarne–Thompson Type 450. In ...
"
*"Princess Rosette Princess Rosette (french: La Princesse Rosette) is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.
Italo Calvino included an orally collected tale, ''The King of the Peacocks'', in his '' ...
"
*" The Enchanted Pig"
*"The Norka
The Norka (Russian: Норка-зверь, "Norka-Animal") is a Russian fairy tale published by Alexander Afanasyev in his collection of ''Russian Fairy Tales'', numbered 132.
Origin
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston indicated the story originated ...
"
*"The Wonderful Birch
The Wonderful Birch (russian: Чудесная берёза) is a Finnish/Russian fairy tale. A variant on Cinderella, it is Aarne–Thompson folktale type 510A, the persecuted heroine. It makes use of shapeshifting motifs. Andrew Lang included i ...
"
*"Jack and the Beanstalk
"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 4th edition On Commons and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. Henry Cole ...
"
*"The Little Good Mouse
The Little Good Mouse is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A king and queen were in love and happy, and made their entire kingdom happy. Nearby lived a cruel ...
"
*"Graciosa and Percinet
Graciosa and Percinet is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Red Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A king and queen had a beautiful daughter, Graciosa, and an ugly duchess hated her. One day, the queen died. ...
"
*"The Three Princesses of Whiteland
"The Three Princesses of Whiteland" (''De tre prinsesser i Hvittenland'') is a Norwegian fairy tale, collected by Norwegian writers Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their collection of folktales and legends ''Norske folkeeventyr ...
"
*""
*"The Six Sillies
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"
*" Kari Woodengown"
*"Drakestail
Drakestail also known as Quackling is a Fairy tale about a duck, where repetition forms most of the logic behind the plot. The story is also similar to other folk and fairy tales where the hero picks up several allies (or sometimes items or skills ...
"
*" The Ratcatcher"
*" The True History of Little Goldenhood"
*"The Golden Branch
The Golden Branch is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A cruel king had a hideous but good-hearted son. The king wanted to arrange an alliance by marrying his son ...
"
*"The Three Dwarfs
"The Three Little Men in the Wood" or "The Three Little Gnomes in the Forest" (german: Die drei Männlein im Walde) is a German fairy tale collected in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 13). Andrew Lang included it in ''The ...
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*"Dapplegrim
Dapplegrim (Norwegian: ''Grimsborken'') is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their ''Norske Folkeeventyr''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.
Plot
A man, the youngest of 12 chil ...
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*"The Enchanted Canary
"The Enchanted Canary" is a French fairy tale collected by Charles Deulin in ''Contes du roi Cambrinus'' (1874) under the title of ''Désiré d'Amour''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.Lang, Andrew. ''The Red Fairy Book''. London: ...
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*"The Twelve Brothers
"The Twelve Brothers" (german: Die zwölf Brüder) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 9). Andrew Lang included it in ''The Red Fairy Book''.
It is of Aarne-Thompson type 451 ("The Maiden Who See ...
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*"Rapunzel
"Rapunzel" ( , ) is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and first published in 1812 as part of ''Children's and Household Tales'' (KHM 12). The Brothers Grimm's story developed from the French literary fairy tale of ''Persinette ...
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*" The Nettle Spinner"
*" Farmer Weatherbeard"
*"Mother Holle
"Frau Holle" ( ; also known as "Mother Holle", "Mother Hulda" or "Old Mother Frost") is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Children's and Household Tales'' in 1812 (KHM 24). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 480.
Frau Holle (al ...
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*" Minnikin"
*"Bushy Bride
Bushy Bride (in no, Buskebrura, link=no) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. It is Aarne-Thompson type 403 (The Black and the White Bride). It is included in Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book.
Synopsis
A widower with a son ...
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*"Snowdrop
''Galanthus'' (from Ancient Greek , (, "milk") + (, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The plants have two linear leaves and a single sm ...
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*"The Golden Goose
"The Golden Goose" (german: Die goldene Gans) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 64).
Story
In the Brothers Grimm version, the hero is the youngest of three brothers, given the nickname Simpleton as he is not handsome or stro ...
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*"The Seven Foals
The Seven Foals (in Norwegian : ''De syv folene'') is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe.
The hero of the story is sometimes called, in an analogue to ''Cinderella'', Cinder-lad.
Synopsis
A poor coup ...
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*"The Marvellous Musician
"The Wonderful Musician" or "The Strange Musician" or "The Marvellous Musician" (german: Der wunderliche Spielmann) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 8 in their ''Grimm's Fairy Tales''. It is Aarne-Thompson ...
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*" The Story of Sigurd"
''The Blue Poetry Book'' (1891)
Contains 153 poems by great British and American poets.
*Anonymous
**"A Red, Red Rose
"A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "(Oh) My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem. Many composers have set Burns' lyric to m ...
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**"Annan Water
Annan may refer to:
People
* Annan (surname)
Places Australia
* Annan River, Queensland, a river just south of Cooktown
Canada
* Annan, Ontario, a community within the municipality of Meaford
China
* Annan (Tang protectorate), the ...
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**" Battle of Otterbourne"
**" Cherry Ripe"
**" The Demon Lover"
**"Helen of Kirkconnel
"Helen of Kirkconnel" is a famous Scottish ballad.
History
It was published by Walter Scott in Volume 2 of ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border''. An early version was also published by John Mayne. It is also known as "Kirkconnel Lea" and "Fair ...
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**"Kinmont Willie
William Armstrong of Kinmont or Kinmont Willie was a Scottish border reiver and outlaw active in the Anglo- Scottish Border country in the last decades of the 16th century.
He lived at the Tower of Sark, close to the border between Scotland a ...
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**" Lawlands of Holland"
**"Lyke-Wake Dirge
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song tells of the soul's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory. Though it is from the Chri ...
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**"Mary Ambree
Mary Ambree ( 1584) was an English army captain from Antwerp who participated in the liberation of the Belgian city Ghent during the war against Spain. While she has not been recorded extensively in history, she was featured in ballads and refer ...
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**" Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter"
**"Sir Patrick Spens
"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea.
Background
''Sir Patrick Spens'' remains one of the most anthologized of Briti ...
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**"The Twa Corbies
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**"The Wife of Usher's Well
"The Wife of Usher's Well" is a traditional ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 79 and number 196 in the Roud Folk Song Index. An incomplete version appeared in Sir Walter Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" (1802). It is composed of thre ...
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**"Willie Drowned in Yarrow
Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to:
People Given name or nickname
* Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, and scree ...
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*Richard Barnfield
Richard Barnfield (baptized 29 June 1574 – 1620) was an English poet.
His obscure though close relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the " rival poet" mentioned in ...
**"The Nightingale"
*William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...
**"Night"
**"Nurse's Song
''Nurse's Song'' is the name of two related poems by William Blake, published in ''Songs of Innocence'' in 1789 and ''Songs of Experience
''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'' is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake. It appe ...
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**"The Chimney-sweeper
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**" The Lamb"
*Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabet ...
**" To Flush, my Dog"
*William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the ''New York Evening Post''. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry ...
**"To a Waterfowl
"To a Waterfowl" is a poem by American poet William Cullen Bryant, first published in 1818.
Summary
The narrator questions where the waterfowl is going and questions his motives for flying. He warns the waterfowl that he could possibly find dan ...
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*John Bunyan
John Bunyan (; baptised 30 November 162831 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory ''The Pilgrim's Progress,'' which also became an influential literary model. In addition ...
**" The Pilgrim"
*Minstrel Burn
**"Leader Haughs
Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. The word "leadership" often gets vi ...
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*Robert Burns
Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who hav ...
**"Bannockburn"
**"I Love my Jean
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**" O, wert Thou in the Cauld Blast"
**"The Banks o' Doon
"The Banks O' Doon" (Modern Scots: ''The Banks o Doon'') is a Scots song written by Robert Burns in 1791, sometimes known as "Ye Banks and Braes" (after the opening line of the third version). Burns set the lyrics to an air called The Caledonian H ...
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**"The Farewell"
**" There'll never be Peace till Jamie comes Hame"
*Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...
**"Could Love for Ever, Run like a River
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**"So, we'll go no more a Roving
"So, we'll go no more a roving" is a poem, written by (George Gordon) Lord Byron (1788–1824), and included in a letter to Thomas Moore on 28 February 1817. Moore published the poem in 1830 as part of '' Letters and Journals of Lord ...
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**"Stanzas written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian language, Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or Indentation (typesetting), indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme scheme, rhyme and ...
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**"The Destruction of Sennacherib
"The Destruction of Sennacherib" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his ''Hebrew Melodies'' (in which it was titled The Destruction of Semnacherib). The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian siege of ...
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*Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Thomas Campbell (poet) (1777–1844), Scottish poet
* Thomas Campbell (sculptor) (1790–1858), Scottish sculptor
* Thomas Campbell (visual artist) (born 1969), California-based visual artist ...
**"Hohenlinden
Hohenlinden (meaning "high linden trees"; colloquially: ''Linden''; in the Bavarian dialect: ''Hea-lin'') is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg. The city of Lynden, Washington is named after it, as is Linden, Alabama. Hohe ...
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**" Lord Ullin's Daughter"
**"The Battle of the Baltic
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**"The Last Man"
**"The Soldier's Dream
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**"Ye Mariners of England
Ye or YE may refer to:
Language
* Ye (pronoun), a form of the second-person plural, personal pronoun "you"
* The Scots word for "you"
* A pseudo-archaic spelling of the English definite article (''the''). See '' Ye olde'', and the "Ye form" sec ...
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*Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poe ...
**" Christabel"
**"Kubla Khan
''Kubla Khan'' () is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to ''Kubla Khan'', the poem ...
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**"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' (originally ''The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'') is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–1798 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ''Lyrical Ballad ...
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* William Collins
**" Ode written in MDCCXLVI"
**" To Evening"
*William Cowper
William Cowper ( ; 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scen ...
**" Boadicea"
**"Epitaph on a Hare
An epitaph (; ) is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is inscribed on a tombstone or plaque, but it may also be used in a figurative sense. Some epitaphs are specified by the person themselves be ...
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**"John Gilpin
John Gilpin (18th century) was featured as the subject in a well-known comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper, entitled '' The Diverting History of John Gilpin''. Cowper had heard the story from his friend Lady Austen.
Gilpin was said to be ...
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**"On a Spaniel called 'Beau' Killing a Young Bird
On, on, or ON may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* On (band), a solo project of Ken Andrews
* ''On'' (EP), a 1993 EP by Aphex Twin
* ''On'' (Echobelly album), 1995
* ''On'' (Gary Glitter album), 2001
* ''On'' (Imperial Teen album), 200 ...
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**"The Dog and the Water-lily
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
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**"The Poplar Field
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**"The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...
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*Charles Dibdin
Charles Dibdin (before 4 March 1745 – 25 July 1814) was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, ...
**"Tom Bowling"
*Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton (1563 – 23 December 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. He died on 23 December 1631 in London.
Early life
Drayton was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothin ...
**"Ballad of Agincourt
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''Ballade (forme fixe), ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of t ...
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*John Dryden
''
John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.
He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the per ...
**"Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music
Alexander's is a real estate investment trust that owns 7 properties in New York metropolitan area, including 731 Lexington Avenue, the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. It is controlled by Vornado Realty Trust. It was founded by George Farkas and ...
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*Jean Elliot
Jean Elliot (April 1727 – 29 March 1805), also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet. She wrote one of the most famous versions of '' The Flowers of the Forest'', a song lamenting the Scottish army's defeat in the Battle of Flodden. ...
**" The Flowers o' the Forest"
*Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is best known for his novel ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1766), his pastoral poem ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), and his pl ...
**" Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"
*Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classics, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his ''Elegy Written in a Country ...
**"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742 ...
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**"The Bard
A bard is a minstrel in medieval Scottish, Irish, and Welsh societies; and later re-used by romantic writers.
Bard, BARD, The Bard or Bård may also refer to:
People
* Bard (surname)
* Bård, Norwegian given name and surname
*William Shakespea ...
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* Robert Herrick
**" To Blossoms"
**" To Daffodils"
*Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece ''A Woman Killed with Kindness'', a ...
**"Morning"
*James Hogg
James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many ...
**"A Boy's Song"
**"The Skylark"
*Thomas Hood
**"A Lake and a Fairy Boat"
**"I Remember, I Remember"
*Ben Jonson
**"Hymn to Diana"
*John Keats
**"La Belle Dame Sans Mercy"
**"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
**"Winter"
*Charles Lamb
**"Hester"
*Mary Lamb
**"The Child and the Snake"
*Walter Savage Landor
**"Rose Aylmer"
*Lady Anne Barnard
**"Auld Robin Gray"
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
**"The Beleaguered City"
**"The Day is Done"
**"The Fire of Drift-wood"
**"The Village Blacksmith"
**"The Wreck of the Hesperus"
*Richard Lovelace (poet), Richard Lovelace
**"To Althea from Prison"
**"To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars"
*Thomas Babington Macaulay
**"Ivry (poem), Ivry"
**"The Armada (poem), The Armada"
**"The Battle of Naseby"
*Christopher Marlowe
**"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
*Andrew Marvell
**"Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda"
**"The Girl Describes her Fawn"
*William Julius Mickle
**"Cumnor Hall"
*John Milton
**"L'Allegro"
**"Il Penseroso"
**"Lycidas"
**"On The Morning of Christ's Nativity"
*Thomas Moore
**"As Slow our Ship"
**"The Light of Other Days"
**"The Harp that once through Tara's Halls"
**"The Minstrel-Boy"
*Carolina Nairne
**"The Land o' the Leal"
*Thomas Nashe
**"Thomas Nashe, Spring"
*Thomas Love Peacock
**"War-song of Dinas Vawr"
*Edgar Allan Poe
**"Annabel Lee"
**"The Haunted Palace"
**"The Sleeper (poem), The Sleeper"
**"The Valley of Unrest"
**"To Helen"
**"To One in Paradise"
**"Ulalume"
*Winthrop Mackworth Praed
**"The Red Fisherman; or, the Devil's Decoy"
*Walter Scott
**"A Weary Lot is Thine, Fair Maid"
**"Alice Brand"
**"Allen-a-Dale"
**"County Guy"
**"Evening"
**"Gathering Song of Donald Dhu"
**"Hunting Song"
**"Hymn for the Dead"
**"Jock of Hazeldean"
**"Lucy Ashton's Song"
**"Nora's Vow"
**"Proud Maisie"
**"Rosabelle"
**"St. Swithin's Chair"
**"The Cavalier"
**"The Eve of St. John"
**"The Outlaw"
**"The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill"
**"Twist ye, Twine ye"
**"Where Shall the Lover Rest?"
**"Young Lochinvar"
*William Shakespeare
**"A Sea Dirge"
**"Fidele (Shakespeare), Fidele"
**"Orpheus with his Lute"
**"Where the Bee Sucks, there Suck I"
**"Who is Silvia? What is she"
**"Winter"
*Percy Bysshe Shelley
**"Percy Bysshe Shelley, Arethusa"
**"To a Skylark"
**"The Recollection"
*James Shirley
**"Death the Leveller"
*Philip Sidney
**"Sleep"
*Robert Surtees (antiquarian), Robert Surtees
**"Barthram's Dirge"
*Charles Wolfe
**"The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna"
**"To Mary"
*William Wordsworth
**"I Wandered Lonely"
**"Lucy Gray; or, Solitude"
**"On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott"
**"from Abbotsford for Naples, 1831"
**"The Kitten and Falling Leaves"
**"The Reverie of Poor Susan"
**"The Solitary Reaper"
**"To the Cuckoo"
**"Two April Mornings"
**"Yarrow Unvisited, 1803"
**"Yarrow Visited, September 1814"
*Henry Wotton
**"Elizabeth of Bohemia"
''The Green Fairy Book'' (1892)
In his Preface to this volume, Lang expressed the view that it would be "probably the last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded subsequent collections. In The Green Fairy Book, the third in the series, Lang has assembled stories from Spanish mythology, Spanish and Chinese folklore, Chinese traditions.
*"The Blue Bird (fairy tale), The Blue Bird"
*"The Half-Chick"
*"The Story of Caliph Stork"
*"The Enchanted Watch"
*"Rosanella"
*"Sylvain and Jocosa"
*"Fairy Gifts"
*"Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla"
*"Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine"
*"The Three Little Pigs"
*"Heart of Ice (fairy tale), Heart of Ice"
*"The Enchanted Ring"
*"The Snuff-box"
*"The Golden Bird, The Golden Blackbird"
*"The Little Soldier (tale), The Little Soldier"
*"The Magic Swan"
*"The Dirty Shepherdess"
*"The Enchanted Snake"
*"The Biter Bit"
*"King Kojata"
*"Prince Fickle and Fair Helena"
*"Puddocky"
*"The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs"
*"Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Story of the Three Bears"
*"Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida"
*"Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes"
*"Jorinde and Joringel"
*"Allerleirauh; or, the Many-furred Creature"
*"The Twelve Huntsmen"
*"Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle"
*"The Crystal Coffin"
*"The Three Snake-leaves"
*"The Riddle (fairy tale), The Riddle"
*"Hans My Hedgehog, Jack my Hedgehog"
*"The Gold-Children, The Golden Lads"
*"The White Snake"
*"The Story of a Clever Tailor"
*"The Golden Bird#The princess as the object of the quest, The Golden Mermaid"
*"The War of the Wolf and the Fox"
*"The Fisherman and His Wife, The Story of the Fisherman and his Wife"
*"The Three Musicians (fairy tale), The Three Musicians"
*"The Three Dogs"
''The True Story Book'' (1893)
Contains 24 true stories, mainly drawn from European history.
*"John Tanner (captive), A Boy among the Red Indians"
*"Casanova, Casanova's Escape"
*"Adventures on the Findhorn"
*"The Story of Grace Darling"
*"Capture of USS Chesapeake, The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake'"
*"William Snelgrave, Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates"
*"Battle of Thermopylae, The Spartan Three Hundred"
*"Charles Edward Stuart, Prince Charlie's Wanderings"
*"Cricket (Sport), Two Great Matches"
*"The Story of Kaspar Hauser"
*"Benevenuto Cellini, An Artist's Adventure"
*"The Tale of Battle of Isandlwana, Isandhlwana and Battle of Rorke's Drift, Rorke's Drift"
*"How Leif Erikson, Leif the Lucky found Vineland the Good"
*"The Escapes of Cervantes"
*"The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe"
*"Baron Franz von der Trenck, Baron Trenck"
*"The Adventure of John Rawlins"
*"The Chevalier de Johnstone, Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden"
*"The Adventures of Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, Lord Pitsligo"
*"The Escape of Caesar Borgia from the Castle of Medina del Campo"
*"Kunz von Kaufungen, The Kidnapping of the Princes"
*"Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, The Conquest of Montezuma's Empire"
*"Adventures of Bartholomew Portugues, a Pirate"
*"Raveneau de Lussan, The Return of the French Freebooters"
''The Yellow Fairy Book'' (1894)
Its initial printing was 15,000 copies. The Yellow Fairy Book is a collection of tales from all over the world. It features many tales from Hans Christian Andersen.
*"Cat and Mouse in Partnership"
*"The Six Swans"
*"The Dragon of the North"
*"Emperor's New Clothes, Story of the Emperor's New Clothes"
*"The Golden Crab"
*"The Iron Stove"
*"The Dragon and his Grandmother"
*"The Donkey Cabbage"
*"The Little Green Frog"
*"The Seven-headed Serpent"
*"The Grateful Beasts"
*"The Giants and the Herd-boy"
*"The Invisible Prince"
*"The Crow (fairy tale), The Crow"
*"How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World"
*"The Wizard King"
*"The Nixie of the Mill-Pond, The Nixy"
*"The Glass Mountain (fairy tale), The Glass Mountain"
*"Alphege, or the Green Monkey"
*"Fairer-than-a-Fairy (Mailly), Fairer-than-a-Fairy"
*"The Three Brothers (fairy tale), The Three Brothers"
*"The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise"
*"The Glass Axe"
*"The Dead Wife"
*"In the Land of Souls"
*"The White Duck"
*"The Witch and Her Servants"
*"The Magic Ring"
*"The Flower Queen's Daughter"
*"The Flying Ship"
*"The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son"
*"Father Frost (fairy tale), The Story of King Frost"
*"The Death of the Sun-hero"
*"The Witch (fairy tale), The Witch"
*"The Hazel-nut Child"
*"Little Claus and Big Claus, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus"
*"Prince Ring"
*"The Swineherd"
*"The Princess and the Pea, How to tell a True Princess"
*" The Blue Mountains"
*"The Tinder Box, The Tinder-box"
*"The Witch in the Stone Boat"
*"Thumbelina"
*"The Nightingale (fairy tale), The Nightingale"
*"Hermod and Hadvor"
*"The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Steadfast Tin-soldier"
*"Blockhead Hans"
*"A Story about a Darning-needle"
''The Red True Story Book'' (1895)
Contains 30 true stories, mainly drawn from European history. Includes the life of Joan of Arc and the Jacobite rising of 1745, Jacobite uprising of 1745.
*"Battle of the Shangani, Wilson's Last Fight"
*"The Life and Death of Joan of Arc, Joan the Maid"
*"How the Bass Rock, Bass was held for King James"
*"The Crowning of Ines de Castro"
*"The Story of Orthon"
*"How Gustav I of Sweden, Gustavus Vasa won his Kingdom"
*"Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, Monsieur de Bayard's Duel"
*"Story of Gudbrand of the Dales"
*"Sir Richard Grenville"
*"The Story of Molly Pitcher"
*"The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of William Rufus Chetwood, Captain Richard Falconer"
*"Marcellin Marbot, Marbot's March"
*"Battle of Eylau, Eylau. The Mare Lisette"
*"How Marcellin Marbot, Marbot crossed the Danube"
*"Gaston III, Count of Foix, The Piteous Death of Gaston, Son of the Count of Foix"
*"Hrólfr Kraki, Rolf Stake"
*"The Wreck of the John Byron, 'Wager'"
*"Peter Williamson (memoirist), Peter Williamson"
*"HMS Bounty, A Wonderful Voyage"
*"The Pitcairn Islanders"
*"A Relation of three years' Suffering of Robert Everard upon the Island of Nosy Be, Assada, near Madagascar, in a voyage to India, in the year 1686"
*"Battle of Svolder, The Fight at Svolder Island"
*"The Death of Haakon the Good, Hacon the Good"
*"Jacobite Rising of 1745, Prince Charlie's War"
*"Burke and Wills expedition, The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition"
*"The Story of Emund"
*"Charlotte Aïssé, The Man in White"
*"The Adventures of 'The Bull of Earlstoun"
*"The Story of Lady Grizel Baillie, Grisell Baillie's Sheep's Head"
*"Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, The Conquest of Peru"
''The Animal Story Book'' (1896)
Contains 65 stories about animals. Some of them are simple accounts of how animals live in the wild. Others are stories about pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions. Many are taken from Alexandre Dumas.
*"'Tom': an Adventure in the Life of a Bear in Paris"
*"Saï the Black panther, Panther"
*"The Buzzard and the Priest"
*"William Cowper, Cowper and his Hares"
*"A Rat Tale"
*"Snake Stories"
*"What Elephants can Do"
*"The Dog of Montargis"
*"How a Beaver builds his House"
*"Bucephalus, The War Horse of Alexander"
*"Stories about Bears"
*"Stories about Ants"
*"The Taming of an Otter"
*"The Story of Androcles and the Lion"
*"Monsieur Alexandre Dumas, Dumas and his Beasts"
*"The Adventures of Pyramus"
*"The Story of a Weasel"
*"Stories about Wolves"
*"Two Highland Dogs"
*"Monkey Tricks and Sally at the Zoo"
*"How the Caiman, Cayman was killed"
*"The Story of Fido"
*"Théophile Gautier, Beasts Besieged"
*"Gull, Mr. Gully"
*"Stories from Pliny the Elder, Pliny"
*"The Strange History of Théophile Gautier, Cagnotte"
*"Still Waters Run Deep; or, the Dancing Dog"
*"Théophile Gautier, Theo and his Horses: Jane, Betsy, and Blanche"
*"Madame Théophile Gautier, Théophile and the Parrot"
*"The Battle of the Mullet (fish), Mullets and the Dolphins"
*"Monkey Stories"
*"Eccentric Bird Builders"
*"Camel, The Ship of the Desert"
*"Hame, hame, hame, where I fain wad be"
*"Edible bird's nest, Nests for Dinner"
*"Fire-eating Djijam"
*"The Story of the Dog Oscar"
*"Dolphins at Play"
*"The Starling of Segringen"
*"Grateful Dogs"
*"Gazelle"
*"Cockatoo Stories"
*"The Otter who was reared by a Cat"
*"Stories about Lions"
*"Builders and Weavers"
*"More Faithful than Favoured"
*"Dolphins, Turtles, and Cod"
*"More about Elephants"
*"Bungey"
*"Lions and their Ways"
*"The History of Jacko I."
*"Signora and Lori"
*"Of the Linnet, Popinjay, or Parrot, and other Birds that can Speak"
*"Patch and the Chickens"
*"The Fierce Falcon"
*"Mr. Bolt, the Scotch Terrier"
*"A Raven's Funeral"
*"A Strange Tiger"
*"Kingfisher, Halcyons and their Biographers"
*"The Story of a Frog"
*"The Woodpecker Tapping on the Hollow Oak Tree"
*"Dogs Over the Water"
*"The Capocier and his Mate"
*"Owls and Marmots"
*"Eagles' Nests"
''The Pink Fairy Book'' (1897)
Forty-one Japanese folktales, Japanese, Scandinavian folklore, Scandinavian, and Donas de fuera, Sicilian tales.
*"The Cat's Elopement"
*"How the Dragon Was Tricked"
*"The Goblin and the Grocer"
*"The House in the Wood"
*"Urashimataro and the Turtle"
*"Kachi-kachi Yama, The Slaying of the Tanuki"
*"The Flying Trunk"
*"The Snow Man"
*"The Shirt-Collar"
*"The Princess in the Chest"
*"The Three Brothers (fairy tale), The Three Brothers"
*"The Snow Queen, The Snow-queen"
*"The Fir-Tree"
*"Hans, the Mermaid's Son"
*"Peter Bull"
*"The Bird 'Grip'"
*"Snowflake (fairy tale), Snowflake"
*"I Know What I Have Learned"
*"The Cunning Shoemaker"
*"The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife"
*"Catherine and Her Destiny"
*"How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter"
*"The Water of Life (Spanish fairy tale), The Water of Life"
*"The Wounded Lion"
*"The Man Without a Heart"
*"The Two Brothers"
*"Master and Pupil"
*"The Golden Lion"
*"The Sprig of Rosemary"
*"The White Dove (Danish fairy tale), The White Dove"
*"The Troll's Daughter"
*"Esben and the Witch"
*"Princess Minon-Minette"
*"Maiden Bright-eye"
*"The Merry Wives"
*"Lindworm#In tales, King Lindworm"
*"The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther"
*"The Little Hare"
*"The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue"
*"The Story of Ciccu"
*"Bearskin (German fairy tale), Don Giovanni de la Fortuna"
''The Arabian Nights' Entertainments'' (1898)
Contains 34 stories from the ''Arabian Nights'', adapted for children. The story of Aladdin
Aladdin ( ; ar, علاء الدين, ', , ATU 561, ‘Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'' (''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part of ...
is in this volume as well as in the ''Blue Fairy Book''.
*"The Arabian Nights"
*"The Story of the Merchant and the Genius"
*"The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind"
*"The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs"
*"The Fisherman and the Jinni, The Story of the Fisherman"
*"The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban"
*"The Story of the Husband and the Parrot"
*"The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished"
*"The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles"
*"The Story of the Three Calendars, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Bagdad"
*"The Story of the First Calendar, Son of a King"
*"The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied"
*"The Story of the Second Calendar, Son of a King"
*"The Story of the Third Calendar, Son of a King"
*"Sinbad, The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor"
*"First Voyage"
*"Second Voyage"
*"Third Voyage"
*"Fourth Voyage"
*"Fifth Voyage"
*"Sixth Voyage"
*"Seventh and Last Voyage"
*"The Little Hunchback"
*"The Story of the Barber's Fifth Brother"
*"The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother"
*"The Adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura"
*"Noureddin and the Fair Persian"
*"Aladdin, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp"
*"The Adventures of Harun al-Rashid, Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad"
*"The Story of the Blind Baba-Abdalla"
*"The Story of Sidi-Nouman"
*"The Story of Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad"
*"The Ebony Horse, The Enchanted Horse"
*"The Sisters Envious of Their Cadette, The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister"
''The Red Book of Animal Stories'' (1899)
Contains 46 stories about real and mythical animals. Some of them are simple accounts of how animals live in the wild. Others are stories about pets, or remarkable wild animals, or about hunting expeditions.
*"The Phoenix (mythology), Phœnix"
*"Griffins and Unicorns"
*"About Gold-digging ant, Ants, Amphisbaena, Amphisbænas, and Basilisks"
*"Dragons"
*"The Story of Beowulf, Grendel', and Grendel's Mother"
*"The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake"
*"A Fox Tale"
*"An Egyptian Snake charming, Snake Charmer"
*"An Adventure of Gérard, the Lion Hunter"
*"Pumas and Jaguars in South America"
*"Mathurin and Mathurine"
*"Joseph: Whose proper name was Josephine"
*"The Homes of the Viscacha, Vizcachas"
*"Guanaco, Guanacos: Living and Dying"
*"In the American Desert"
*"The Story of Jacko II"
*"Princess"
*"Saint Jerome, The Lion and the Saint"
*"The Further Adventures of 'Tom,' a Bear, in Paris"
*"Recollections of a Lion Tamer"
*"Sheep Farming on the Border"
*"When the World was Young"
*"Bats and Vampires"
*"Rhinoceros, The Ugliest Beast in the World"
*"The Games of Orang-Outangs, and Kees the Baboon"
*"Greyhounds and their Masters"
*"The Great Father, and Snakes' Ways"
*"Elephant Shooting"
*"Hyenas and Children"
*"A Fight with a Hippopotamus"
*"Kanny, the Kangaroo"
*"Collies or Sheep Dogs"
*"Two Big Dogs and a Little One"
*"Crocodile Stories"
*"Lion-Hunting and Lions"
*"On the Trail of a Man-eater"
*"Greyhounds and their Arab Masters"
*"The Life and Death of Pincher"
*"A Boar Hunt by Moonlight"
*"Thieving Dogs and Horses"
*"To the Memory of Squouncer"
*"How Tom the Bear was born a Frenchman"
*"Charley"
*"American Bison, Fairy Rings; and the Fairies who make them"
*"How the Reindeer Live"
*"The Cow and the Crocodile"
''The Grey Fairy Book'' (1900)
Thirty-five stories, many from oral traditions, and others from French, German folklore, German and Folklore of Italy, Italian collections.
*"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' purse, 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 (fairy tale), 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 (fairy tale), The Bear"
*"The Sunchild"
*"The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch"
*"Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox"
*"The Unlooked for Prince"
*"The Simpleton"
*"The Street Musicians"
*"The Twin Brothers"
*"Cannetella"
*"The Ogre (fairy tale), The Ogre"
*"A Fairy's Blunder"
*"Long, Broad, and Quickeye"
*"Prunella (fairy tale), Prunella"
''The Violet Fairy Book'' (1901)
Romania, Japan, Serbian folklore, Serbia, Lithuanian mythology, 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.
*"A Tale Of the Tontlawald"
*"The Finest Liar in the World"
*"The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars"
*"Schippeitaro"
*"The Three Princes and their Beasts"
*"The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan"
*"The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples"
*"The Lute Player"
*"The Grateful Prince"
*"The Child who came from an Egg"
*"Stan Bolovan"
*"The Two Frogs"
*"The Story of a Gazelle"
*"How a Fish swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water"
*"Two in a Sack"
*"The Envious Neighbour"
*"The Fairy Aurora, The Fairy of the Dawn"
*"The Enchanted Knife"
*"Jesper Who Herded the Hares"
*"The Underground Workers"
*"Little Longnose, The History of Dwarf Long Nose"
*"The Nunda, Eater of People"
*"The Story of Hassebu"
*"Hachikazuki, The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet"
*"The Monkey and the Jelly-fish"
*"The Headless Dwarfs"
*"The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened"
*"The Boys with the Golden Stars"
*"The Frog Princess, The Frog"
*"The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground"
*"Ileana Simziana, The Girl Who Pretended to be a Boy"
*"The Story of Halfman"
*"The Prince Who Wanted to See the World"
*"Virgilius the Sorcerer"
*"Mogarzea and his Son"
''The Book of Romance'' (1902)
Contains nineteen stories from various medieval and Renaissance romances of chivalry, adapted for children. Includes stories about King Arthur, Charlemagne, William of Gellone, William of Orange, and Robin Hood.
*"Excalibur#Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone, The Drawing of the Sword"
*"The Questing Beast"
*"Excalibur, The Sword Excalibur"
*"The Story of Sir Balin"
*"How the Round Table began"
*"The Passing of Merlin"
*"How Morgan Le Fay tried to kill King Arthur"
*"What Beaumains asked of the King"
*"The Quest of the Holy Grail, Holy Graal"
*"Guinevere, The Fight for the Queen"
*"Elaine of Astolat, The Fair Maid of Astolat"
*"Lancelot and Guenevere"
*"Battle of Camlann, The End of it All"
*"Battle of Roncevaux Pass, The Battle of Roncevalles"
*"The Pursuit of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, Diarmid"
*"Some Adventures of William of Gellone, William Short Nose"
*"Wayland the Smith"
*"The Story of Robin Hood"
*"The Story of Grettir the Strong"
''The Crimson Fairy Book'' (1903)
These 36 stories originated in Hungary, Russia, Folklore of Finland, Finland, Iceland, Tunisia, the Baltic mythology, Baltic, and elsewhere.
*"Lovely Ilonka"
*"Lucky Luck"
*"The Hairy Man"
*"To Your Good Health!"
*"The Story of the Seven Simons"
*"The Language of Beasts"
*"The Boy Who Could Keep a Secret"
*"The Prince and the Dragon"
*"Little Wildrose"
*"Tiidu the Piper"
*"Paperarello"
*"The Gifts of the Magician"
*"The Strong Prince"
*"The Treasure Seeker"
*"The Cottager and his Cat"
*"The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality"
*"The Stonecutter, The Stone-cutter"
*"The Gold-bearded Man"
*"Tritill, Litill, and the Birds"
*"The Three Robes"
*"The Six Hungry Beasts"
*"How the Beggar Boy turned into Count Piro"
*"The Rogue and the Herdsman"
*"Eisenkopf"
*"The Death of Abu Nowas and of his Wife"
*"Motikatika"
*"Niels and the Giants"
*"Shepherd Paul"
*"How the Wicked Tanuki was Punished"
*"The Crab and the Monkey"
*"The Horse Gullfaxi and the Sword Gunnfoder"
*"The Story of the Sham Prince, or the Ambitious Tailor"
*"The Colony of Cats"
*"How to find out a True Friend"
*"Clever Maria"
*"Bunbuku Chagama, The Magic Kettle"
''The Brown Fairy Book'' (1904)
The Brown Fairy Book contains stories from the Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Indians, Bush ballad, Australian Bushmen and African Sotho people, Sothos, and from Persian mythology, Persia, Sami shamanism, Lapland, Brazilian mythology, Brazil, and Folklore of India, India.
*"What the Rose did to the Cypress"
*"Ball-Carrier and the Bad One"
*"How Ball-Carrier finished his Task"
*"The Bunyip"
*"Father Grumbler"
*"The Story of the Yara (mythology), Yara"
*"The Cunning Hare"
*"The Turtle and his Bride"
*"How Geirald the Coward was Punished"
*"Habogi"
*"How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers"
*"The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe"
*"The Wicked Wolverine"
*"The Husband of the Rat's Daughter"
*"The Mermaid and the Boy"
*"Pivi and Kabo"
*"The Elf Maiden"
*"How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones"
*"Fortune and the Wood-Cutter"
*"The Enchanted Head"
*"The Sister of the Sun"
*"Tale of the doomed prince#Adaptations, The Prince and the Three Fates"
*"The Fox and the Lapp"
*"Kisa the Cat"
*"The Lion and the Cat"
*"Which was the Foolishest?"
*"Asmund and Signy"
*"Rubezahl"
*"Story of the King who would be Stronger than Fate"
*"Story of Wali Dad the Simple-hearted"
*"Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey"
*"The Knights of the Fish"
''The Red Romance Book'' (1905)
Contains 29 stories from various medieval and Renaissance romances of chivalry, adapted for children. Includes stories about Don Quixote, Charlemagne, Bevis of Hampton and Guy of Warwick.
*"How Guillaume de Palerme, William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf"
*"Guillaume de Palerme, The Disenchantment of the Werwolf"
*"Njáls saga, The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands"
*"Njáls saga, The Death of Gunnar"
*"Njáls saga, Njal's Burning"
*"Gesta Romanorum, The Lady of Solace"
*"The Faerie Queene, Una and the Lion"
*"The Faerie Queene, How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon"
*"Amis et Amiles, Amys and Amyle"
*"El Cid, The Tale of the Cid"
*"Don Quixote, The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance"
*"Don Quixote, The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep"
*"Don Quixote, The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights"
*"Don Quixote, The Helmet of Mambrino"
*"How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle"
*"Don Quixote, Don Quixote's Home-coming"
*"The Meeting of Huon of Bordeaux, Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies"
*"How Oberon saved Huon of Bordeaux, Huon"
*"Havelok the Dane, Havelok and Goldborough"
*"Cupid and Psyche"
*"Bevis of Hampton, Sir Bevis the Strong"
*"Ogier the Dane"
*"The Golden Ass, How the Ass became a Man again"
*"Guy of Warwick"
*"Orlando Furioso, How Bradamante conquered the Wizard"
*"Orlando Furioso, The Ring of Bradamante"
*"Orlando Furioso, The Fulfilling of the Prophecy"
*"The Knight of the Sun"
*"How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father"
''The Orange Fairy Book'' (1906)
Includes 33 tales from Jutland, Rhodesia, Uganda, and various other European traditions.
*"The Story of the Hero Makoma"
*"The Magic Mirror (fairy tale), The Magic Mirror"
*"Story of the King who would see Paradise"
*"How Isuro the Rabbit tricked Gudu"
*"Ian, the Soldier's Son"
*"The Fox and the Wolf"
*"How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon"
*"The Ugly Duckling"
*"The Two Caskets"
*"The Goldsmith's Fortune"
*"The Enchanted Wreath"
*"The Foolish Weaver"
*"The Clever Cat"
*"The Story of Manus Pinkel the Thief"
*"The Adventures of a Jackal"
*"The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son"
*"The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal"
*"The Three Treasures of the Giants"
*"The Rover of the Plain"
*"The White Doe"
*"The Girl-Fish"
*"The Owl and the Eagle"
*"The Frog and the Lion Fairy"
*"The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired"
*"The Princess Bella-Flor"
*"The Bird of Truth"
*"The Mink and the Wolf"
*"Adventures of an Indian Brave"
*"How the Stalos were Tricked"
*"Andras Baive"
*"The White Slipper"
*"The Magic Book"
''The Olive Fairy Book'' (1907)
The ''Olive Fairy Book'' includes unusual stories from Turkish folklore, Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenian mythology, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France.
*"Madschun"
*"The Blue Parrot (fairy tale), The Blue Parrot"
*"Geirlug The King's Daughter"
*"The Story of Little King Loc"
*"A Long-Bow Story"
*"Jackal or Tiger?"
*"The Comb and the Collar"
*"The Thanksgiving of the Wazir"
*"Samba the Coward"
*"Kupti and Imani"
*"Thumbelina, The Strange Adventures of Little Maia"
*"Diamond Cut Diamond (fairy tale), Diamond Cut Diamond"
*"The Green Knight (fairy tale), The Green Knight"
*"The Five Wise Words of the Guru"
*"The Golden-Headed Fish"
*"Dorani"
*"The Satin Surgeon"
*"The Billy Goat and the King"
*"The Story of Zoulvisia"
*"Grasp All, Lose All"
*"The Fate of the Turtle"
*"The Snake Prince"
*"The Prince and the Princess in the Forest"
*"The Clever Weaver"
*"The Boy Who Found Fear At Last"
*"He Wins Who Waits"
*"The Steel Cane"
*"The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana"
*"The Silent Princess"
''The Book of Princes and Princesses'' (1908)
Published by Longmans as written by "Mrs. Lang"; illustrated by H. J. Ford ().
Contains 14 stories about the childhoods of European monarchs, including Napoleon, Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I, and Frederick the Great.
*"Napoleon"
*"Napoleon II, His Majesty the King of Rome"
*"Jeanne d'Albret, The Princess Jeanne"
*"Haakon IV of Norway, Hacon the King"
*"Marie Louise of Orléans (1662–1689), Mi Reina! Mi Reina!"
*"Henrietta of England, Henriette the Siege Baby"
*"Henry VII of England, The Red Rose"
*"Elizabeth of York, The White Rose"
*"Richard I of Normandy, Richard the Fearless"
*"Frederick the Great, Frederick and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Wilhelmine"
*"Marie Antoinette, Une Reine Malheureuse"
*"Isabella of Valois, The 'Little Queen'"
*"Blanche of England, Two Little Philippa of England, Girls and their Mary de Bohun, Mother"
*"The Troubles of the Princess Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth"
''The Red Book of Heroes'' (1909)
Published by Longmans as written by "Mrs. Lang"; illustrated by H. J. Ford ().
Contains 12 true stories about role models for children, including Hannibal, Florence Nightingale, and Thomas More, Saint Thomas More.
*"Florence Nightingale, The Lady-in-Chief"
*"John Howard (prison reformer), Prisoners and Captives"
*"Hannibal"
*"Father Damien, The Apostle of the Lepers"
*"Ferdinand the Holy Prince, The Constant Prince"
*"James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, The Marquis of Montrose"
*"Henry Havelock, A Child's Hero"
*"Thomas More, Conscience or King"
*"Marie Angélique Arnauld, The Little Abbess"
*"Charles George Gordon, Gordon"
*"Saint Ambrose, The Crime of Theodosius"
*"Bernard Palissy, Palissy the Potter"
''The Lilac Fairy Book'' (1910)
The ''Lilac Fairy Book'' contains stories from Portugal, Irish mythology, Ireland, Welsh mythology, Wales, and points East and West.
*"The Shifty Lad"
*"The False Prince and the True"
*"The Jogi's Punishment"
*"The Heart of a Monkey The Heart of a Monkey is a Swahili fairy tale collected by Edward Steere in ''Swahili Tales''.Edward Steere (1870), '' Swahili Tales'', "The Story of the Washerman's Donkey". Andrew Lang included it in ''The Lilac Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thomp ...
"
*"The Fairy Nurse"
*"A Lost Paradise (fairy tale), A Lost Paradise"
*"How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves"
*"The King of the Waterfalls"
*"A French Puck"
*"The Three Crowns"
*"The Story of a Very Bad Boy"
*"The Brown Bear of Norway"
*"Little Lasse"
*"Moti (fairy tale), Moti"
*"The Enchanted Deer"
*"A Fish Story (fairy tale), A Fish Story"
*"The Wonderful Tune"
*"The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother"
*"The One-Handed Girl"
*"The Bones of Djulung"
*"The Sea King's Gift"
*"The Raspberry Worm"
*"The Stones of Plouhinec"
*"The Castle of Kerglas"
*"The Battle of the Birds"
*"The Lady of the Fountain"
*"The Four Gifts"
*"The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok"
*"Llwyd ap Cil Coed, The Escape of the Mouse"
*"The Believing Husbands"
*"The Hoodie-Crow"
*"The Brownie of the Lake"
*"Olwen, The Winning of Olwen"
''The All Sorts of Stories Book'' (1911)
Published by Longmans as written by "Mrs. Lang"; illustrated by H. J. Ford.().
Contains 30 stories on a variety of subjects, including true stories, Greek mythology, Greek myths, and stories from Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe.
*"How a Boy became first a Lamb and then an Apple"
*"The Battle of the White Bull"
*"Melampus, The Serpents' Gift"
*"Meleager the Hunter"
*"The Vanishing of Benjamin Bathurst (diplomat), Bathurst"
*"Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette, In the Shadow of the Guillotine"
*"The Flight of the Charles II of England, King"
*"Alexander Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe"
*"Marcellin Marbot, How the Russian Soldier was Saved"
*"Marcellin Marbot, Marbot and the Young Cossack"
*"Heracles the Dragon-Killer"
*"Old Rectory, Epworth, Old Jeffery"
*"The Adventures of a Prisoner"
*"The Campden Wonder, What became of Old Mr. Harrison?"
*"The Keepsake Stories, Aunt Margaret's Mirror"
*"The Count of Monte Cristo, The Prisoner of the Chateau d'lf"
*"The Count of Monte Cristo, The Hunt for the Treasure"
*"The Gold-Bug, The Story of the Gold Beetle"
*"Loreta Velazquez, the Military Spy"
*"The Farmer's Dream"
*"The Three Musketeers, The Sword of D'Artagnan"
*"The Three Musketeers, The Bastion Saint-Gervais"
*"The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, Little General Monk"
*"Pegasus, The Horse with Wings"
*"The Prize of Jeanne Jugan"
*"Unlucky John"
*"Siamese embassy to France (1686), How the Siamese Ambassadors reached the Cape"
*"The Strange Tale of Ambrose Gwinnett"
*"Mary Rowlandson, With the Redskins"
*"The Wreck of the ''Drake''"
''The Book of Saints and Heroes'' (1912)
Published by Longmans as written by "Mrs. Lang"; illustrated by H. J. Ford ().
Contains 23 Hagiography, stories about saints. Most of these are true stories, although a few legends are also included.
*"Paul of Thebes, The First of the Hermits"
*"Dorothea of Caesarea, The Roses from Paradise"
*"Saint Jerome, The Saint with the Lion"
*"Synesius, the Ostrich Hunter"
*"The Struggles of Augustine of Hippo, St. Augustine"
*"Germanus of Auxerre, Germanus the Governor"
*"Malchus of Syria, Malchus the Monk"
*"Simeon Stylites, The Saint on the Pillar"
*"Cuthbert, The Apostle of Northumbria"
*"Columba, St. Columba"
*"Brendan the Navigator, Brendan the Sailor"
*"Saint Senan, The Charm Queller"
*"Dunstan the Friend of Kings"
*"St. Margaret of Scotland"
*"St. Elizabeth of Hungary"
*"Louis IX of France, Saint and King"
*"Francis of Assisi, The Preacher to the Birds"
*"Richard of Chichester, Richard the Bishop"
*"Colette of Corbie, Colette"
*"Francis Xavier, The Apostle of the Japanese"
*"John of God, The Servant of the Poor"
*"Vincent de Paul, The Founder of Hospitals"
*"Saint George, The Patron Saint of England"
''The Strange Story Book'' (1913)
Published after Andrew Lang's death, with an introduction by Leonora Blanche Lang. Contains thirty-four stories on a variety of subjects, including ghost stories, Native American legends, true stories, and tales from Washington Irving.
*"Tales of a Traveller, The Drowned Buccaneer"
*"The Perplexity of Zadig"
*"The Return of the Dead Wife"
*"Hannah Snell, 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"
*"James MacLaine, The Gentleman Highwayman"
*"The Vision of the Pope Pius V, Pope"
*"Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother"
*"The Handless Brigade"
*"The Son of the Wolf Chief"
*"John Metcalf (civil engineer), Blind Jack of Knaresborough"
*"John Metcalf (civil engineer), Blind Jack Again"
*"The Story of Djun"
*"What Became of Owen Parfitt?"
*"Blackskin"
*"The Pets of George Sand, Aurore Dupin"
*"George Sand, The Trials of M. Deschartres"
*"George Sand, Aurore at Play"
*"How George Sand, Aurore learned to Ride"
*"Land-Otter the Indian"
*"The Disinheriting of a Son"
*"Siege of Rhodes (1522), The Siege of Rhodes"
*"The Princess of Babylon"
*"The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son"
*"The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning"
*"The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Mrs. Veal's Ghost"
*"The Chief's Daughter"
*"Leonardo da Vinci, The Boyhood of a Painter"
*"Catalina de Erauso, The Adventures of a Spanish Nun"
References
External links
Full Andrew Lang's Fairy Books collection
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One More Library
Andrew Lang collection
The Folio Society "Rainbow Fairy Books"
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Collections of fairy tales
Series of children's books
Scottish children's literature