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LILAC FAIRY BOOK

Author: Lang, A

Description from The Reader's Catalog
"Our stories are almost all old, some from Ireland, before that island was as celebrated for her wrongs as for her verdure; some from Asia, made...before the Aryan invasion; some from Moydart, Knoydart, Morar and Ardnamurchan, where the sea streams run like great clear rivers and the saw-edged hills are blue.... Some are from Portugal, where the golden fruits grow in the Garden of the Hesperides; and some are from wild Wales, and were told at Arthur's Court; and others come from the firesides of the kinsmen of the Welsh, the Bretons. There are also modern tales by a learned Scandinavian named Topelius." -- Andrew Lang

From The Publisher
In The Lilac Fairy Book, a large number of the tales - including a variation on the beauty and the beast story called "Brown Bear of Norway" - are from Irish sources; the Welsh Mabinogion provided the Arthurian legend of "The Winning of Olwen"; and other tales are from the more exotic traditions of India, Portugal, Brittany, and Scandinavia.

All in all, this collection contains 33 stories, all narrated in clear, lively prose. Not only are Lang's collections generally considered to contain the best English versions of the standard stories; they are also the richest and widest in range. His position as one of England's foremost folklores as well as a first-rate edition makes his collections unmatchable in the English language.

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LILAC FAIRY BOOK 0486219070
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