''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 t ...
and
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...
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 o ...
and his wife,
Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of
fairy tales 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 ...
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, and
translator
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. 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 wri ...
,
novelist
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, and
literary critic, edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run.
According to
Anita Silvey, "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 be ...
,
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 narra ...
, 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.
Biog ...
, 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 ...
, 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
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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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**Oral administration of medicines
** Oral examination (also known as an oral exam or or ...
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 between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west. The surrounding area is sometimes referred to as "the Borderlands".
The ...
. 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 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.
Jacobs ...
. 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 gardenias 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
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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 philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''.
From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlins ...
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" 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 Mannin ...
" 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
shillings 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'', 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"
*"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 ...
"
*" The Yellow Dwarf"
*"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 Brot ...
"
*"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 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 ...
"
*"Beauty and the Beast
''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...
"
*"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 ...
"
*" 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 ...
"
*" 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 "Th ...
"
*" 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 Carol ...
"
*" The Goose-girl"
*"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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, Danish
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, and Romanian
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**Romanians, an ethnic group
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** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...
tales as well as Norse mythology.
*"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 characte ...
"
*"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 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 Co ...
"
*"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 crue ...
"
*"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 folkeeventy ...
"
*""
*" The Six Sillies"
*" Kari Woodengown"
*" Drakestail"
*" 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 ''Grimms' Fairy Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 13). Andrew Lang ...
"
*"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 chi ...
"
*"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 ...
"
*"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 Se ...
"
*"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 '' Persinet ...
"
*" 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 ''Grimms' Fairy Tales, Children's and Household Tales'' in 1812 (KHM 24). It is of Aarne–Thompson–Ut ...
"
*" 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 ...
"
*"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 ...
"
*"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 str ...
"
*"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 ...
"
*"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 ...
"
*" 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 ...
"
**"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 ...
"
**" 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 List of folk songs by Roud 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 pur ...
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**" Mary Ambree"
**" Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter"
**" Sir Patrick Spens"
**" The Twa Corbies"
**"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
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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
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**"Night"
**"Nurse's Song
''Nurse's Song'' is the name of two related poems by William Blake, published in ''Songs of Innocence
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**"The Chimney-sweeper
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**" The Lamb"
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
**" 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
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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 peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...
**"Could Love for Ever, Run like a River
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**"So, we'll go no more a Roving
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**"Stanzas written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
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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
**"Hohenlinden
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**" Lord Ullin's Daughter"
**" The Battle of the Baltic"
**"The Last Man"
**"The Soldier's Dream
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**" Ye Mariners of England"
*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 ...
**" 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 sce ...
**" Boadicea"
**" Epitaph on a Hare"
**"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.
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**"On a Spaniel called 'Beau' Killing a Young Bird
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**" The Dog and the Water-lily"
**" The Poplar Field"
**"The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
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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
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*John Dryden
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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
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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
**" Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"
*Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his '' Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,'' published in 1751.
G ...
**" Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
**"The Bard
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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'', ...
**"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
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as " The Bridge of Sighs" and " The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for ''The London Magazine'', '' Athenaeum'', and ''Punch' ...
**" A Lake and a Fairy Boat"
**"I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as " The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for ''The London Magazine'', ''Athenaeum'', and ''Punch''. ...
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*Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for t ...
**"Hymn to Diana
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* John Keats
**"La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
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**"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) in October 1816. It tells of the author's astonishment while he was reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer, who was fre ...
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**"Winter"
*Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his '' Essays of Elia'' and for the children's book '' Tales from Shakespeare'', co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764 ...
**"Hester"
*Mary Lamb
Mary Anne Lamb (3 December 1764 – 20 May 1847) was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection '' Tales from Shakespeare'' (1807). Mary suffered from mental illness, and in 1796, aged ...
**" The Child and the Snake"
*Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (30 January 177517 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist. His best known works were the prose ''Imaginary Conversations,'' and the poem "Rose Aylmer," but the critical acclaim he received from contempora ...
**" Rose Aylmer"
*Lady Anne Barnard
Lady Anne Barnard (née Lindsay; 8 December 17506 May 1825) was a Scottish travel writer, artist and socialite, and the author of the ballad ''Auld Robin Gray''. Her five-year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a signific ...
**"Auld Robin Gray
Auld Robin Gray is the title of a Scots ballad written by the Scottish poet Lady Anne Lindsay in 1772.
Robin Gray is a good old man who marries a young woman already in love with a man named Jamie. Jamie goes away to sea in order to earn money s ...
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*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include " Paul Revere's Ride", '' The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely tran ...
**" The Beleaguered City"
**"The Day is Done"
**" The Fire of Drift-wood"
**"The Village Blacksmith
"The Village Blacksmith" is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1840. The poem describes a local blacksmith and his daily life. The blacksmith serves as a role model who balances his job with the role he plays with his family ...
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**"The Wreck of the Hesperus
"The Wreck of the Hesperus" is a narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in ''Ballads and Other Poems'' in 1842. It is a story that presents the tragic consequences of a skipper's pride. On an ill-fated voyag ...
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* Richard Lovelace
**" To Althea from Prison"
**" To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars"
*Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1 ...
**" Ivry"
**" The Armada"
**" The Battle of Naseby"
* Christopher Marlowe
**"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (1599), by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1485–1603). Marlowe composed the poem in iambic tetrameter (four feet of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed ...
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*Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell (; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend ...
**"Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda
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**" The Girl Describes her Fawn"
*William Julius Mickle
William Julius Mickle (29 September 1734 in Langholm, in Dumfrieshire – 28 October 1788 in Forest Hill) was a Scottish poet.
Son of the minister of Langholm, Dumfriesshire, he was for some time a brewer in Edinburgh, but failed. He move ...
**"Cumnor Hall
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* John Milton
**"L'Allegro
''L'Allegro'' is a pastoral poem by John Milton published in his 1645 ''Poems''. ''L'Allegro'' (which means "the happy man" in Italian) has from its first appearance been paired with the contrasting pastoral poem, '' Il Penseroso'' ("the me ...
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**"Il Penseroso
''Il Penseroso'' ("the thinker") is a poem by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses ''The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin'', published by Humphrey Moseley. It was presented as a companion piece to ''L'Al ...
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**"Lycidas
"Lycidas" () is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, ''Justa Edouardo King Naufrago'', dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who dro ...
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**"On The Morning of Christ's Nativity
''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'' is a nativity ode written by John Milton in 1629 and published in his ''Poems of Mr. John Milton'' (1645). The poem
describes Christ's Incarnation and his overthrow of earthly and pagan powers. The poem ...
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*Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his ''Irish Melodies''. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish ...
**"As Slow our Ship
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**"The Light of Other Days"
**"The Harp that once through Tara's Halls
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**"The Minstrel-Boy
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* Carolina Nairne
**" The Land o' the Leal"
*Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. He is known for his novel ''The Unfortunate Traveller'', his pamphlets including ''Pierce Penniless,'' ...
**"Spring
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*Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, ...
**" War-song of Dinas Vawr"
*Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...
**"Annabel Lee
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**"The Haunted Palace
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**" The Sleeper"
**" The Valley of Unrest"
**"To Helen
"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. It was first published in the 1831 collection ''Poems of Edgar A. Poe.'' It ...
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**" To One in Paradise"
**"Ulalume
"Ulalume" () is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as " The Raven", " Annabel Lee", and " Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote t ...
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*Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (28 July 180215 July 1839)—typically written as W. Mackworth Praed—was an English politician and poet.
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Praed was born in London, United Kingdom. The family name of Praed was derived from the marri ...
**"The Red Fisherman; or, the Devil's Decoy
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*Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy ...
**" A Weary Lot is Thine, Fair Maid"
**" Alice Brand"
**" Allen-a-Dale"
**"County Guy
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**"Evening"
**"Gathering Song of Donald Dhu
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**" Hunting Song"
**"Hymn for the Dead
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**" Jock of Hazeldean"
**"Lucy Ashton's Song
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**" 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
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**" Twist ye, Twine ye"
**" Where Shall the Lover Rest?"
**" Young Lochinvar"
*William Shakespeare
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**" A Sea Dirge"
**" Fidele"
**" Orpheus with his Lute"
**"Where the Bee Sucks, there Suck I
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**" Who is Silvia? What is she"
**"Winter"
* Percy Bysshe Shelley
**" Arethusa"
**"To a Skylark
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It was inspired by an evening walk in the country near ...
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**"The Recollection"
*James Shirley
James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 – October 1666) was an English dramatist.
He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Charles Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so m ...
**"Death the Leveller
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*Philip Sidney
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**"Sleep"
* Robert Surtees
**" Barthram's Dirge"
*Charles Wolfe
Charles Wolfe (14 December 1791 – 21 February 1823) was an Irish poet, chiefly remembered for "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" which achieved popularity in 19th century poetry anthologies.
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**"The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
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**" To Mary"
*William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication '' Lyrical Ballads'' (1798).
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**" I Wandered Lonely"
**" Lucy Gray; or, Solitude"
**"On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott
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**"from Abbotsford for Naples, 1831
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**" The Kitten and Falling Leaves"
**" The Reverie of Poor Susan"
**"The Solitary Reaper
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**" To the Cuckoo"
**"Two April Mornings
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**"Yarrow Unvisited, 1803
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**"Yarrow Visited, September 1814
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*Henry Wotton
Sir Henry Wotton (; 30 March 1568 – December 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg, in 1604, he famously said, "An ambassador is an honest gentlema ...
**" 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
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
and Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
traditions.
*" The Blue Bird"
*"The Half-Chick
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*"The Story of Caliph Stork
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"
*"The Enchanted Watch
The Enchanted Watch is a French fairy tale collected by Paul Sébillot (1843–1918). Andrew Lang included it in his '' The Green Fairy Book'' (1892).
Synopsis
A rich man's oldest two sons went out and saw the world for three years apiece, and ...
"
*" Rosanella"
*" Sylvain and Jocosa"
*" Fairy Gifts"
*"Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...
"
*"Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...
"
*"The Three Little Pigs
"The Three Little Pigs" is a fable about three pigs who build three houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses which made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house t ...
"
*" Heart of Ice"
*" The Enchanted Ring"
*"The Snuff-box
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"
*" The Golden Blackbird"
*"The Little Soldier
''Le petit soldat'' () is a French film, written and directed by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in 1960, but not released until 1963. It was Godard's third film released with Anna Karina, who starred as Véronica Dreyer alongside Michel Subor (as ...
"
*" The Magic Swan"
*"The Dirty Shepherdess
The Dirty Shepherdess is a French fairy tale collected by Paul Sébillot. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Green Fairy Book''.
Plot summary
A king asked his two daughters how much they loved him. His older said as the apple of her eye. The ...
"
*"The Enchanted Snake
The Enchanted Snake or The Snake is an Italian fairy tale. Giambattista Basile wrote a variant in the ''Pentamerone''. Andrew Lang drew upon this variant,Heidi Anne Heiner,Tales Similar to East of the Sun & West of the Moon for inclusion in ''The ...
"
*"The Biter Bit"
*"King Kojata King Kojata or The Unlooked for Prince or Prince Unexpected ( Polish: ''O królewiczu Niespodzianku'') is a Slavonic fairy tale, of Polish origin. Louis Léger remarked that its source (''Bajarz polski'') was "one of the most important collections ...
"
*" Prince Fickle and Fair Helena"
*"Puddocky
"Das Mahrchen von der Padde" ("The Tale of the Toad") is a German folktale collected by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching in ''Volks-Sagen, Märchen und Legenden''. It has been translated into English under the titles of "Puddocky" or "Cherry the ...
"
*"The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs
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"
*"The Story of the Three Bears
"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (originally titled "The Story of the Three Bears") is a 19th-century English fairy tale of which three versions exist. The original version of the tale tells of an obscene old woman who enters the forest home ...
"
*"Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...
"
*"Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes
"One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 130. Andrew Lang included it, as "Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes", in ''The Green Fairy Book''. It is Aarne–Thomp ...
"
*" Jorinde and Joringel"
*"Allerleirauh
"Allerleirauh" ( en, "All-Kinds-of-Fur", sometimes translated as "Thousandfurs") is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Since the second edition published in 1819, it has been recorded as Tale no. 65. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Gree ...
; or, the Many-furred Creature"
*"The Twelve Huntsmen
"The Twelve Huntsmen" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 67 in their ''Grimm's Fairy Tales''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Green Fairy Book''.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 884, the forsaken fiancée. Other ...
"
*"Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle
"Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lex ...
"
*" The Crystal Coffin"
*"The Three Snake-leaves
"The Three Snake-Leaves" (German: ''Die drei Schlangenblätter'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 16. It is Aarne-Thompson type 612, "The Three Snake-Leaves".
Synopsis
Via his valor in battle, a young man wi ...
"
*" The Riddle"
*" Jack my Hedgehog"
*" The Golden Lads"
*"The White Snake
"The White Snake" (German: ''Die weiße Schlange'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 17). It is of Aarne–Thompson type 673, and includes an episode of type 554 ("The Grateful ...
"
*" The Story of a Clever Tailor"
*"The Golden Mermaid
''The Golden Bird'' (German: ''Der goldene Vogel'') is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 57) about the pursuit of a golden bird by a gardener's three sons.
It is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as type ATU 550, ...
"
*" The War of the Wolf and the Fox"
*" The Story of the Fisherman and his Wife"
*" The Three Musicians"
*"The Three Dogs
The Three Dogs is a German fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Green Fairy Book'', listing his source as the Brothers Grimm. A version of this tale appears in '' A Book of Dragons'' by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
It is Aarne-Thompson type ...
"
''The True Story Book'' (1893)
Contains 24 true stories, mainly drawn from European history.
*" A Boy among the Red Indians"
*"Casanova's
''Casanova's'' is a 2020 Dutch comedy film directed by Jamel Aattache. The film won the Golden Film award after having sold 100,000 tickets. It was the sixth highest-grossing Dutch film of 2020. It was also the seventh best visited Dutch film of ...
Escape"
*"Adventures on the Findhorn
Findhorn ( gd, Inbhir Èir or ''Inbhir Èireann'') is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of Findhorn Bay and immediately south of the Moray Firth. Findhorn is 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Kinloss, and about 5 ...
"
*"The Story of Grace Darling
Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked ''Forfarshire'' in 1838 brought her national fame. The paddlesteamer ...
"
*" The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake'"
*" Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates"
*" The Spartan Three Hundred"
*" Prince Charlie's Wanderings"
*" Two Great Matches"
*"The Story of Kaspar Hauser
Kaspar Hauser (30 April 1812 – 17 December 1833) was a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell. Hauser's claims, and his subsequent death from a stab wound to his left breast, sparked much debate an ...
"
*" An Artist's Adventure"
*"The Tale of Isandhlwana
Isandlwana () (older spelling ''Isandhlwana'', also sometimes seen as ''Isandula'') is an isolated hill in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is located north by northwest of Durban. The name is said to mean abomasum, the second st ...
and Rorke's Drift
The Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879), also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the ...
"
*"How Leif the Lucky found Vineland the Good"
*"The Escapes of Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 Old Style and New Style dates, NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-emin ...
"
*"The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe"
*"Baron Trenck
''Baron Trenck'' is a comic opera in three acts loosely based on the life of Baron Franz von der Trenck. The original German-language work was composed by Felix Albini to a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Robert Bodanzky and premiered at t ...
"
*"The Adventure of John Rawlins"
*"The Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden"
*"The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo"
*"The Escape of Caesar Borgia from the Castle of Medina del Campo"
*" The Kidnapping of the Princes"
*" The Conquest of Montezuma's Empire"
*"Adventures of Bartholomew Portugues
Bartholomew (Aramaic: ; grc, Βαρθολομαῖος, translit=Bartholomaîos; la, Bartholomaeus; arm, Բարթողիմէոս; cop, ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ; he, בר-תולמי, translit=bar-Tôlmay; ar, بَرثُولَماو ...
, a Pirate"
*" 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
"Cat and Mouse in Partnership" (german: Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' (KHM 2). It is a story of Aarne-Thompson type 15 ("Stealing the Partner's Butter").
Origin ...
"
*"The Six Swans
"The Six Swans" (German: ''Die sechs Schwäne'') is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1812 (KHM 49). It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451 ("The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), commonly found throu ...
"
*"The Dragon of the North
The Dragon of the North ( et, Põhja konn, literally Frog of the North) is an Estonian fairy tale, collected by Dr. Friedrich Kreutzwald in ''Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed jutud''. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Yellow Fairy Book''; he listed his ...
"
*" Story of the Emperor's New Clothes"
*"The Golden Crab
''The Golden Crab'' is a Greek fairy tale collected as "Prinz Krebs" by Bernhard Schmidt in his ''Griechische Märchen, Sagen and Volkslieder''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Yellow Fairy Book''.
Greek folklorist collected a variant, The Cra ...
"
*"The Iron Stove
The Iron Stove (''Der Eisenofen'') is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, as tale number 127. It is Aarne–Thompson type 425A, the animal bridegroom. Dorothea Viehmann prepared the story for the Grimms' collection.
Synopsis
A prince ...
"
*"The Dragon and his Grandmother
"The Devil and his Grandmother" or "The Dragon and His Grandmother" (german: Der Teufel und seine Großmutter) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 125. According to Jack Zipes, the source of the story was Dorothea Vieh ...
"
*"The Donkey Cabbage
"Donkey Cabbages" (or "The Donkey Cabbage"; german: Der Krautesel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 122. A man shoots birds in a forest and gains magical objects. By also ingesting the heart of one of the bird ...
"
*"The Little Green Frog
The Little Green Frog (French: ''La Petite Grenouille Verte'') is a French literary fairy tale, from the '' Cabinet des Fées''. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Yellow Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
Two kings, Peridor and Diamantino, were cousins and ...
"
*"The Seven-headed Serpent
"The Seven-headed serpent" is a Greek fairy tale collected, as "Die Siebenkopfige Schlange," in Bernhard Schmidt's ''Griechische Märchen'' (german to english greek fairytales).Schmidt, Bernhard. ''Griechische Märchen, Sagen und Volkslieder''. L ...
"
*"The Grateful Beasts
The Grateful Beasts (German: ''Die dankbaren Thiere'') is a Hungarian fairy tale collected by Georg von Gaal ( hu) in ''Mährchen der Magyaren'' (1822). The tale was also published by Hermann Kletke in ''Märchensaal'', Vol II (1845).
Synopsis
...
"
*"The Giants and the Herd-boy
The Giants and the Herd-boy is a Bukovina, Bukovinian fairy tale collected by Dr Heinrich von Wlislocki in ''Märchen und Sagen der Bukowinaer und Siebenbürger Armenier''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Yellow Fairy Book''.Andrew Lang, ''The Y ...
"
*"The Invisible Prince
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"
*"The Crow
The Crow is a supernatural superhero comic book series created by James O'Barr revolving around the titular character of the same name. The series, which was originally created by O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his fiancée at t ...
"
*"How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World
How may refer to:
* How (greeting), a word used in some misrepresentations of Native American/First Nations speech
* How, an interrogative word in English grammar
Art and entertainment Literature
* ''How'' (book), a 2007 book by Dov Seid ...
"
*"The Wizard King
The Wizard King (''Le Roi Magicien'') is a French fairy tale published in ''Les fees illustres'' by the Chevalier de Mailly. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Yellow Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A king was lord over many lands and had mastered mag ...
"
*" The Nixy"
*" The Glass Mountain"
*" Alphege, or the Green Monkey"
*" Fairer-than-a-Fairy"
*" The Three Brothers"
*"The Boy and the Wolves
The Boy and the Wolves is a Native American fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Yellow Fairy Book''.Andrew Lang, ''The Yellow Fairy Book''"The Boy and the Wolves"/ref>
Synopsis
Shunning the wickedness of people, a gentle-hearted hunter ...
, or the Broken Promise"
*" The Glass Axe"
*"The Dead Wife
''The Langs' Fairy Books'' are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional children's literature, stories for children published between 1889 in literature, 1889 and 1913 in literature, 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alley ...
"
*" In the Land of Souls"
*"The White Duck
The White Duck (russian: Белая уточка) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in '' Narodnye russkie skazki''. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Yellow Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A king had to leave his newly-wed wife for ...
"
*" The Witch and Her Servants"
*" The Magic Ring"
*"The Flower Queen's Daughter
The Flower Queen's Daughter ( German: ''Die Tochter der Blumenkönigin'') is a Bukovinian fairy tale collected by Dr Heinrich von Wlislocki in ''Märchen Und Sagen Der Bukowinaer Und Siebenbûrger Armenier''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Ye ...
"
*" The Flying Ship"
*" The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son"
*" The Story of King Frost"
*"The Death of the Sun-hero
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"
*"The Witch
A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft.
Witch, WITCH, or variations thereof may also refer to:
Animals
* Witch (lefteye flounder) (''Arnoglossus scapha''), a Pacific flatfish
* Witch (righteye flounder) (''Glyptocephalus cynoglossus''), a Euro ...
"
*"The Hazel-nut Child
"The Hazelnut Child" (German: ''Das Haselnusskind'') is a Bukovinian fairy tale collected by the Polish-German scholar Heinrich von Wlislocki (1856–1907) in ''Märchen Und Sagen Der Bukowinaer Und Siebenbûrger Armenier'' (1891, Hamburg: Ver ...
"
*" The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus"
*"Prince Ring
"Prince Ring" ( is, Sagan af Hríngi kóngssyni) is an Icelandic folktale, collected by Jón Árnason.
Andrew Lang translated the tale into English as "Prince Ring" in ''The Yellow Fairy Book'' (1894).
Textual notes
"Sagan af Hríngi kóngssyn ...
"
*"The Swineherd
"The Swineherd" ( da, Svinedrengen) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd to win an arrogant princess. The tale was first published December 20, 1841 by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen ...
"
*" How to tell a True Princess"
*" The Blue Mountains"
*" The Tinder-box"
*"The Witch in the Stone Boat
"The Witch in the Stone Boat" ( is, Skessan á steinnökkvanum 'the giantess in the stone boat') is an Icelandic folktale, originally collected by Jón Árnason (1864), translated into English in Andrew Lang's fairy tale collection ''The Yellow ...
"
*"Thumbelina
Thumbelina (; da, Tommelise) is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in ...
"
*" The Nightingale"
*"Hermod and Hadvor
Hermod and Hadvor is an Icelandic fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Yellow Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A king and a queen had a daughter, Princess Hadvor, and a foster son, Prince Hermod. One day, the Queen died. The King set to sea and fou ...
"
*" The Steadfast Tin-soldier"
*" Blockhead Hans"
*"A Story about a Darning-needle
"A Story about a Darning-needle" or "The Darning-Needle" ( da, Stoppenålen) is an 1845 literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
The story is about a very conceited darning needle that believes itself fit for embroidery, but is instead pu ...
"
''The Red True Story Book'' (1895)
Contains 30 true stories, mainly drawn from European history. Includes the life of Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat ...
and the Jacobite uprising of 1745
The Jacobite rising of 1745, also known as the Forty-five Rebellion or simply the '45 ( gd, Bliadhna Theàrlaich, , ), was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (20 December 1720 ...
.
*" Wilson's Last Fight"
*"The Life and Death of Joan the Maid"
*"How the Bass was held for King James"
*"The Crowning of Ines de Castro
Ines or INES may refer to:
People
* Ines (name), a feminine given name, also written as Inés or Inês
* Saint Ines or Agnes (), Roman virgin–martyr
* Eda-Ines Etti (stage name: ''Ines''; born 1981), Estonian singer
Places
* Doña Ines, a volca ...
"
*"The Story of Orthon"
*"How Gustavus Vasa won his Kingdom"
*" Monsieur de Bayard's Duel"
*"Story of Gudbrand of the Dales"
*" Sir Richard Grenville"
*"The Story of Molly Pitcher
Molly Pitcher is a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Revolutionary War. She is most often identified as Mary Ludwig Hays, who fought in the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. Another possibility is Margaret Corbin, ...
"
*"The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer"
*" Marbot's March"
*" Eylau. The Mare Lisette"
*"How Marbot crossed the Danube"
*" The Piteous Death of Gaston, Son of the Count of Foix"
*" Rolf Stake"
*"The Wreck of the 'Wager'"
*" Peter Williamson"
*" A Wonderful Voyage"
*"The Pitcairn Islanders"
*"A Relation of three years' Suffering of Robert Everard upon the Island of Assada, near Madagascar, in a voyage to India, in the year 1686"
*" The Fight at Svolder Island"
*"The Death of Hacon the Good"
*" Prince Charlie's War"
*" The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition"
*"The Story of Emund"
*" The Man in White"
*"The Adventures of 'The Bull of Earlstoun"
*"The Story of Grisell Baillie's Sheep's Head"
*" 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 Panther
Panther may refer to:
Large cats
*Pantherinae, the cat subfamily that contains the genera ''Panthera'' and ''Neofelis''
**'' Panthera'', the cat genus that contains tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards.
*** Jaguar (''Panthera onca''), found in So ...
"
*"The Buzzard
Buzzard is the common name of several species of birds of prey.
''Buteo'' species
* Archer's buzzard (''Buteo archeri'')
* Augur buzzard (''Buteo augur'')
* Broad-winged hawk (''Buteo platypterus'')
* Common buzzard (''Buteo buteo'')
* Eastern ...
and the Priest"
*" Cowper and his Hares"
*"A Rat Tale"
*"Snake Stories"
*"What Elephants can Do"
*"The Dog of Montargis
Montargis () is a commune in the Loiret department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
Montargis is the seventh most populous commune in the Loiret, after Orléans and its suburbs. It is near a large forest, and contains light industry and farming, ...
"
*"How a Beaver builds his House"
*" The War Horse of Alexander"
*"Stories about Bears"
*"Stories about Ants"
*"The Taming of an Otter"
*"The Story of Androcles and the Lion"
*"Monsieur 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 Cayman was killed"
*"The Story of Fido"
*" Beasts Besieged"
*" Mr. Gully"
*"Stories from Pliny
Pliny may refer to:
People
* Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), ancient Roman nobleman, scientist, historian, and author of ''Naturalis Historia'' (''Pliny's Natural History'')
* Pliny the Younger (died 113), ancient Roman statesman, orator, w ...
"
*"The Strange History of Cagnotte
Cagnotte (; oc, Canhòta) is a Communes of France, commune in the Landes (department), Landes Departments of France, department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Landes department
References ...
"
*"Still Waters Run Deep; or, the Dancing Dog"
*"Theo
Theo is a given name and a hypocorism.
Greek origin
Many names beginning with the root "Theo-" derive from the Ancient Greek word ''theos'' (''θεός''), which means god, for example:
*Feminine names: Thea, Theodora, Theodosia, Theophania, ...
and his Horses: Jane, Betsy, and Blanche"
*"Madame Théophile and the Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines (), are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes (), found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoide ...
"
*"The Battle of the Mullets and the Dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the ...
s"
*" Monkey Stories"
*"Eccentric Bird Builders"
*" The Ship of the Desert"
*"Hame, hame, hame, where I fain wad be"
*" Nests for Dinner"
*"Fire-eating Djijam"
*"The Story of the Dog Oscar"
*"Dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the ...
s at Play"
*"The Starling
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. The Sturnidae are named for the genus '' Sturnus'', which in turn comes from the Latin word for starling, ''sturnus''. Many Asian species, particularly the larger ones, ...
of Segringen"
*"Grateful Dogs"
*"Gazelle
A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus ''Gazella'' . This article also deals with the seven species included in two further genera, '' Eudorcas'' and '' Nanger'', which were formerly considered subgenera of ''Gazella''. A third ...
"
*"Cockatoo
A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the orde ...
Stories"
*"The Otter who was reared by a Cat"
*"Stories about Lions"
*"Builders and Weavers"
*"More Faithful than Favoured"
*"Dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the ...
s, Turtle
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s, and Cod
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*"More about Elephant
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*"Bungey"
*"Lions and their Ways"
*"The History of Jacko I."
*"Signora and Lori"
*"Of the Linnet
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, 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"
*" 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 Marmot
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*"Eagles' Nests"
''The Pink Fairy Book'' (1897)
Forty-one Japanese
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* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
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, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales.
*"The Cat's Elopement "The Cat's Elopement" (german: Kätzchens Entführung) is a Japanese fairy tale collected by Professor in '' Japanische Marchen und Sagen'' (Leipzig, 1885). Andrew Lang had it translated and included in ''The Pink Fairy Book
''The Langs' Fairy ...
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*"How the Dragon Was Tricked
''How the Dragon was Tricked'' is a Greek fairy tale collected by Johann Georg von Hahn in ''Griechische und Albanesische Märchen''. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Pink Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 328, the boy steals the giant's ...
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*"The Goblin and the Grocer
"The Goblin at the Grocer's" ( da, Nissen hos Spekhøkeren) is a fairy tale published 1852 by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about a goblin () who must choose between poetry or his Christmas porridge from a grocer.
Andrew Lang included t ...
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*" The House in the Wood"
*" Urashimataro and the Turtle"
*" The Slaying of the Tanuki"
*"The Flying Trunk
"The Flying Trunk" (Danish: ''Den flyvende Kuffert'') is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young man who has a flying trunk that carries him to Turkey where he visits the Sultan's daughter. The t ...
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*"The Snow Man"
*" The Shirt-Collar"
*"The Princess in the Chest
The Princess in the Chest, also known as The Princess in the Coffin (Danish language, Danish: ''Prinsessen i Kisten'') is a Danish fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Pink Fairy Book''.
Another tale of this type is ''La Ramée and the Pha ...
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*" The Three Brothers"
*" The Snow-queen"
*"The Fir-Tree
"The Fir-Tree" ( Danish: ''Grantræet'') is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate ...
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*" Hans, the Mermaid's Son"
*"Peter Bull"
*"The Bird 'Grip'
The Bird 'Grip' is a Swedish fairy tale.Andrew Lang, ''The Pink Fairy Book'',The Bird 'Grip' Andrew Lang included it in ''The Pink Fairy Book''. It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for the golden bird/firebird; other tales of this type inclu ...
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*"Snowflake
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*"I Know What I Have Learned
I know what I have learned is a Danish fairy tale, collected by Svend Grundtvig in ''Gamle Danske Minder i Folkemunde''. Andrew Lang included it in '' The Pink Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A man's three daughters were all married to trolls. One day ...
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*" The Cunning Shoemaker"
*"The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife
The King who would have a Beautiful Wife or The King Who Wanted a Beautiful Wife is an Italian fairy tale collected by Laura Gonzenbach in ''Sicilianische Märchen''. Thomas Crane included in his ''Italian Popular Tales'', and Andrew Lang, in ''T ...
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*"Catherine and Her Destiny
Catherine and her Destiny is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in ''Italian Popular Tales'', and included by Andrew Lang in ''The Pink Fairy Book''. It is classified as Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as ATU 938, "Placidas" ...
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*" How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter"
*" The Water of Life"
*"The Wounded Lion
''The Wounded Lion'' is a Spanish fairy tale collected by D. Francisco de S. Maspons y Labros, in ''Cuentos Populars Catalans''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Pink Fairy Book''.
Synopsis
A poor girl got a job herding cows. One day, she hea ...
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*"The Man Without a Heart
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Cast
* Kenneth Harlan as Rufus Asher
* Jane Novak as Barbara Wier
* David Powell ...
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*"The Two Brothers
The Two Brothers is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 60. It is Aarne-Thompson type 303, "The Blood Brothers", with an initial episode of type 567, "The Magic Bird Heart". A similar story, of Sicilian origin, wa ...
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*"Master and Pupil
"Master and Pupil" is a Danish fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Pink Fairy Book''.Andrew Lang, ''The Pink Fairy Book''"Master and Pupil"/ref>
It is Aarne-Thompson type 325, "The Magician and His Pupil".
Synopsis
A boy trying to get ...
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*" The Golden Lion"
*"The Sprig of Rosemary
The Sprig of Rosemary is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Dr. D. Francisco de S. Maspons y Labros in ''Cuentos Populars Catalans''. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Pink Fairy Book''.
It is related to the international cycle of ''The Search for ...
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*" The White Dove"
*"The Troll's Daughter The Troll's Daughter ( da, Troldens datter) is a Danish folktale from Svend Grundtvig's collection (1876), whose English translation was published by Andrew Lang in ''The Pink Fairy Book'' (1897).
Textual notes
The Danish original "Troldens dat ...
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*"Esben and the Witch
Esben and the Witch (Danish language: ''Esben og Troldheksen'') is a Danish fairy tale first collected by Jens Kamp.Kamp, Jens. ''Danske Folkeminder, æventyr, Folkesagn, Gaader, Rim Og Folketro''. Odense: R. Nielsen, 1877. pp. 93-102. Andrew ...
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*" Princess Minon-Minette"
*" Maiden Bright-eye"
*"The Merry Wives
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Cast
* Zdeněk Štěpánek as Mikuláš Dačický of Heslov
* Ladislav Pešek as Očko
* Václav Vydra as Vilém of ...
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*"King Lindworm
King Lindworm or Prince Lindworm (Danish: ''Kong Lindorm'') is a Danish fairy tale published in the 19th century by Danish folklorist Svend Grundtvig.
It is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as tale type ATU 433B, a type that de ...
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*"The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther
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*" The Little Hare"
*"The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue
, translated literally into "Tongue-Cut Sparrow", is a traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and jealousy on the characters.
Andrew La ...
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*" The Story of Ciccu"
*" Don Giovanni de la Fortuna"
''The Arabian Nights' Entertainments'' (1898)
Contains 34 stories from the '' Arabian Nights'', adapted for children. The story of Aladdin 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 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"
*" 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 and the Wonderful Lamp"
*"The Adventures of 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 Enchanted Horse"
*" 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 Phœnix"
*" Griffins and Unicorn
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*"About Ants
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, Amphisbænas, and Basilisk
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*"Dragons"
*"The Story of Beowulf, Grendel', and Grendel's Mother"
*"The Story of Beowulf and the Fire Drake"
*"A Fox Tale"
*"An Egyptian Snake Charmer
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*"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 Vizcachas"
*" Guanacos: Living and Dying"
*"In the American Desert"
*"The Story of Jacko II"
*"Princess"
*" The Lion and the Saint"
*"The Further Adventures of 'Tom,' a Bear, in Paris"
*"Recollections of a Lion Tamer
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*"Sheep Farming on the Border"
*"When the World was Young"
*"Bats and Vampires"
*" 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"
*" 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
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** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
and Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
collections.
*"Donkey Skin
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*" The Goblin Pony"
*"An Impossible Enchantment
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*"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 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
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy ...
and Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...
.
*"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"
*" 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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