Fairy Books of Andrew Lang

FAIRY BOOKS  OF ANDREW LANG


Andrew Lang  was a Scots 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 of St Andrews are named after him.


Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse, Ballades in Blue China (1880, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes à la Mode (1884),Grass of Parnassus(1888),Ban and Arrière Ban(1894), New Collected Rhymes(1905).


Lang was active as a journalist in various ways, ranging from sparkling "leaders" for the Daily News to miscellaneous articles for the Morning Post, and for many years he was literary editor of Longman's Magazine; no critic was in more request, whether for occasional articles and introductions to new editions or as editor of dainty reprints.


He edited The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896), and was responsible for the Life and Letters (1897) of JG Lockhart, and The Life, Letters and Diaries (1890) of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh. Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886), Letters to Dead Authors (1886),Letters on Literature (1889), etc.


This book contains collection of 12 books


Book 1: THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK

Book 2: THE RED FAIRY BOOK

Book 3: THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK

Book 4: THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK

Book 5: THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK

Book 6: THE ORANGE FAIRY BOOK

Book 7: THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK

Book 8: THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK

Book 9: THE PINK FAIRY BOOK

Book 10: THE GREY FAIRY BOOK

Book 11: THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK

Book 12: THE OLIVE FAIRY BOOK