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  • Bibliography:
    177 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1965
  • Latest Book:
    June 2020
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Book List in Order: 177 titles

  • The Green Fairy Book

    “Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting -- from all over the world -- fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.” -- Kir...

  • The Lilac Fairy Book

    "Admirable series of photographic reprints of the first editions. . . . Altogether very good value." -- New York Review of Books. Over 30 tales from Portugal, Ireland, Wales, and points East and West, among them "The Brown Bear of Norway," "The Enc...

  • The Olive Fairy Book

    The Olive Fairy Book includes unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France. But all of the stories are told in the common language of the fairy tale, and their heroes -- the Green Knight who is save...

  • The Arabian Nights Entertainments

    It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of the Arabian Nights. Beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, magic words that open doors to great treasure, giants and dwarves, monsters and...

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies

  • Mystery of Mary Stuart

    Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer best known for collecting folklore, legends, and fairy tales and making a compendium of them to celebrate ethnic heritage. However, he also wrote this popular historical mystery tale....

  • The Flying Ship

  • Fifty Favourite Fairy Tales

  • Tales of Troy and Greece

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews Univer...



  • King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table

    A ruler said to be the model of goodness over evil and a formidable comrade in the ever-present struggle between right and wrong, the figure of King Arthur of England prevails at the heart of the Arthurian legends. The myths surrounding his reign ha...

  • The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

    The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement, the stories are classed in different grades, as they advance from the normal and famili...

  • Helen Of Troy

    In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen ...

  • The Blue Fairy Book

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a 12 book series of fairy tale collections.

    The Blue Fairy Book includes 37 stories, including the orginal versions of classic tales such as:

    Little Red Riding Hood

  • 12 Books in One: Andrew Lang's Complete Fairy Book Series: Traditional Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from Around the World

    Fairy tales are the oldest stories in the world. They were first made by adults who were childlike for their own amusement, and so they amuse children still, and also grown-up people who have not forgotten how they once were children. The stories in ...

  • Books and Bookmen

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a...

  • Historical Mysteries

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a...

  • The Library

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a...

  • The Rainbow Fairy Book

    Here are thirty-one enchanting selections drawn from Andrew Lang's famous series of colorfully titled fairy tale anthologies. Scholar, poet, novelist, and literary critic, Lang tirelessly collected magical stories from cultures all over the world -- ...

  • The Tale of the Cid

    Enter an enchanted world of kings and castles, heroes and damsels, fairies and dragons, magicians and giants. This collection thrills with nineteen classic romances -- old-fashioned stories of high adventure spun from folk tales and sprinkled with hi...



  • The Crimson Fairy Book

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a 12 book series of fairy tale collections.

    The Crimson Fairy Book includes 36 stories, including the orginal versions of classic tales such as:

    The Magic Kettle
    ...

  • The Red Fairy Book

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a 12 book series of fairy tale collections.

    The Red Fairy Book includes 37 stories, including the orginal versions of classic tales such as:

    Jack and the Beanstalk

  • Tales From the Arabian Nights

    To save herself from certain death, the beautiful Scheherazade must beguile a Persian sultan with her enchanting stories. In two of her most well-known tales, Aladdin and Ali Baba's cleverness and quick-thinking save the day -- and a great treasure....

  • Andrew Lang's Blue, Red, Green And Yellow Fairy Books

    This A4 size collection of Andrew Lang's Blue, Red, Green and Yellow Fairy books contains some of the world's most famous fairy tales, including: Cinderella: Cinderella has inspired the imagination of many little unfortunate girls who can only dream ...

  • Andrew Lang's Brown, Orange, Olive And Lilac Fairy Books

    This last A4 size volume is a collection of Andrew Lang's Pink, Grey, Violet and Crimson Fairy books containing some of the best fairy tales from all over the world. Like the last two books, this one also showcases the diversity of traditional storie...

  • Andrew Lang's Pink, Grey, Violet And Crimson Fairy Books

    This A4 size collection of Andrew Lang's Pink, Grey, Violet and Crimson Fairy books is another delectable volume of some of the best fairy tales from all over the world. A window to the world's cultures, you can be part of a world of fairies, ogres, ...

  • Dragon Tales for Kids

    Ten short stories about dragons are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Prince and the Dragon, (2) Shepherd Paul, (3) How the Dragon ...

  • One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

    One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, sometimes called The Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a collection of classic Middle Eastern stories that have been a keystone in world folklore for over three hundred years. Join Aladdin on his adventures with h...

  • The Blue Fairies

  • The Brown Fairies

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  • The Pink Fairies

  • True Fairy Tales, the Lang Chronicles ~ Volume II

  • True Tales ~ The Green Fairies

    Collection of Fairy legends passed down by those who encountered them. (1889) Collect all 12 of the True Fairy Tales ~ Fae Books*** For more titles like this one, type into the search field: Body and Soul Publications ***...

  • True Tales ~ The Lilac Fairies

    Collection of Fairy legends passed down by those who encountered them. (1889) Collect all 12 of the True Fairy Tales Books*** For more titles like this one, type into the search field: Body and Soul Publications ***...

  • True Tales ~ The Olive Fairies

    Collection of Fairy legends passed down by those who encountered them. (1889) Collect all 12 of the True Fairy Tales Books*** For more titles like this one, type into the search field: Body and Soul Publications ***...

  • True Tales ~ The Orange Fairies

  • True Tales ~ The Pink Fairies

  • True Tales ~ The Red Fairies

    Andrew Lang 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 of St Andrews are named after him.This Editi...

  • True Tales ~ The Violet Fairies

  • True Tales ~ The Yellow Fairies



  • Why the Sea is Salt

    Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were two brothers, the one rich and the other poor. When Christmas Eve came, the poor one had not a bite in the house, either of meat or bread; so he went to his brother, and begged him, in God’s name, to giv...

  • Castle Tales for Kids

    Five short stories about castles are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) Soria Moria Castle, (2) The Castle of Kerglas, (3) Th...

  • Enchanted Tales for Kids

    Fifteen short stories about enchanted items, places, and things are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Enchanted Cave of ...

  • Golden Tales for Kids

    Twelve short stories about golden items, places, and things are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Golden Goose, (2) The ...

  • Mermaid Tales for Kids

    Seven short stories about mermaids are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Mermaid of Zennor, (2) The Mermaid, (3) Hans, t...

  • Snake Tales for Kids

    Four short stories about snakes are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Enchanted Snake, (2) The White Snake, (3) The Snak...

  • Duck Tales for Kids

    Eight short stories about ducks are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, (2) The White Duck, (3...

  • Frog Tales for Kids

    Sixteen short stories about frogs are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Leap-Frog, (2) The Frog Princess, (3) The Little...

  • Witch Tales for Kids

    Eight short stories about witches are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Dead Witch, (2) The Witch, (3) The Witch and the...

  • Goblin Tales for Kids

    Five short stories about goblins are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Goblin and the Grocer, (2) Goblin Pony, (3) The T...



  • Princess Tales for Kids

    Twelve short stories about princesses are selected from several books of fairy tales by Andrew Lang and others. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Real Princess, (2) The Twelve Dancing Prince...

  • The Arabian Nights Entertainments.

  • True Tales ~ The Crimson Fairies

    Collection of Fairy legends passed down by those who encountered them. (1889) Collect all 12 of the True Fairy Tales ~ Fae Books*** For more titles like this one, type into the search field: Body and Soul Publications ***...

  • Alfred Tennyson

  • The Iliad by Homer

    One of the more famous English versions of Homer's Iliad, Andrew Lang collaborated with Ernest Myers and Walter Leaf for this prose translation. It is well known for its charming archaic style. The Iliad is an epic ancient Greek poem set during the T...

  • 'That Very Mab'

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews Univer...

  • Cinderella and Other Stories from "The Blue Fairy Book"

    Andrew Lang (1844"1912) was a brilliant Scottish scholar, man of letters, and serious student of folklore. His series of "fairy books" is generally regarded as among the richest collections in the English language. Gathered from around the world -...

  • Andrew Lang's Fairy Books in Two Volumes, Volume 2,

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, totalling 437 tales in all, from a great number of countries and cultures. For many of these now famous stories it was their debut in the English language. Lang was a talent...

  • Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Volume 1

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, totalling 437 tales in all, from a great number of countries and cultures. For many of these now famous stories it was their debut in the English language. Lang was a talent...

  • Myth, Ritual, and Religion

    This belief in a chief god "from all eternitie" (that is, of unexplained origin), may not be convenient to some speculators, but it exactly corroborates Strachey's account of Ahone as creator with subordinates. The evidence is of 1586 (twenty-six yea...

  • Donkey Skin

    The goddaughter did not feel much faith in the fairy after her two previous failures; but not knowing what else to do, she told her father what she was bid. The king made no difficulties about it, and even gave his finest rubies and diamonds to ornam...

  • A Fairy's Blunder

    'Is there no way of satisfying these poor things?' she thought. And then one night an idea occurred to her. 'Oh, yes, of course It has been tried before; but I will manage better than the rest, with their old Fountain of Youth, which, after all, onl...

  • An Impossible Enchantment

    There once lived a king who was much loved by his people, and he, too, loved them warmly. He led a very happy life, but he had the greatest dislike to the idea of marrying, nor had he ever felt the slightest wish to fall in love. His subjects begged ...

  • John Knox and the Reformation

    Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) 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 ar...

  • Letters to Dead Authors

    A satirical collection of letters to the great voices of literary history, from Herodotus to Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and more. The Scottish poet and scholar Andrew Lang took a novel approach to literary criticism when he chose to ad...

  • Long, Broad, and Quickeye

    The staircase wound round and round and round, till the prince was almost giddy, and every now and then he caught sight of a large room that opened out from the side. But he had been told to go to the top, and to the top he went. Then he found himsel...

  • Mohammed with the Magic Finger

    Once upon a time, there lived a woman who had a son and a daughter. One morning she said to them: 'I have heard of a town where there is no such thing as death: let us go and dwell there.' So she broke up her house, and went away with her son and dau...

  • The Ogre

    Disgusted and furious with the poor creature, he seized a thick stick and began to beat it so hard that he nearly broke every bone in its body. The miserable donkey was so distracted at such treatment that, far from pouring out precious stones, it on...

  • A Short History of Scotland

    Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) 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 ar...

  • The Story of Dschemil and Dschemila

    There was once a man whose name was Dschemil, and he had a cousin who was called Dschemila. They had been betrothed by their parents when they were children, and now Dschemil thought that the time had come for them to be married, and he went two or t...

  • The Story of the Fair Circassians

    'Night came, and I awoke from my sleep to find the younger of the two strangers sitting at my bedside and felt him take my hand. '"Fear nothing, lovely Dely," he whispered, "from one who never knew love till he saw you. My name," he went on, "is Prin...

  • The Story of the Three Sons of Hali

    Neangir was quite content with his lot, though he was neither rich nor great, and unlike most young men of his age had no desire to leave his home. He was therefore completely taken by surprise when one day Mohammed told him with many sighs that the ...

  • Udea and Her Seven Brothers

    The little girl soon grew to be a big girl, and she was called by all her friends (though she did not know it) 'Udea, who had driven her seven brothers into strange lands.' One day, when she had been quarrelling with her playmates, the oldest among t...

  • The Orange Fairy

    Once upon a time, at the town of Senna on the banks of the Zambesi, was born a child. He was not like other children, for he was very tall and strong; over his shoulder he carried a big sack, and in his hand an iron hammer. He could also speak like a...

  • The Crimson and the Brown Fairy Book Collection

    Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing. A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, j...

  • The 12 Fairy Books of Andrew Lang

    12 Books in 1: Andrew Lang's Complete "Fairy Book" Series. The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac ... and Fairy Stories From Around The World The Classic Children's Books: All Twelve of Andrew Lang...

  • Andrew Lang Fantasy Classics Library Volume I

    Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was good, this garden yielded neither flowers nor fruits, not even grass or shady trees. The K...

  • The Lilac Fairy

  • The Red Fairy

  • Myth, Ritual and Religion: Volume I

    “The word "Religion" may be, and has been, employed in many different senses, and with a perplexing width of significance. No attempt to define the word is likely to be quite satisfactory, but almost any definition may serve the purpose of an argum...

  • Myth, Ritual and Religion: Volume II

    “The word "Religion" may be, and has been, employed in many different senses, and with a perplexing width of significance. No attempt to define the word is likely to be quite satisfactory, but almost any definition may serve the purpose of an argum...

  • The True Story Book

    Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 " 20 July 1912) 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 ...

  • The Worlds Desire

  • Robert F. Murray

    Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps, faints...

  • Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Olympus and Beyond the Myths of Troy and Greece

    A great retelling of the Greek myths and legends by the master story-teller Andrew Lang, a classic volume that should be in every child's home and school library - and adults' too. A CALLENDER CLASSIC TEXT...

  • The Crimson Fairy

  • Ballades and Verses Vain

    " ...] Where the lovers eloped in the dark, Lived, died, and were changed into two Bright birds that eternally flew Through the boughs of the may, as they sang; 'T is a tale was undoubtedly true In the reign of the Emperor Hwang. ...]."...

  • The Story of Joan of Arc

    Excerpt from The Story of Joan of Arc

    Archbishop. It is important to remember this; you will see the reason afterwards. Now, Rheims was in the power Of the English, so the Dauphin, Charles, could not go there and be made King in earnest. The Engl...

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    JACK SELLS THE COW ONCE upon a time there was a poor widow who lived in a little cottage with her only son Jack. Jack was a giddy, thoughtless boy, but very kind-hearted and affectionate. There had been a hard winter, and after it the poor woman had ...

  • Rapunzel

    ONCE upon a time there lived a man and his wife who were very unhappy because they had no children. These good people had a little window at the back of their house, which looked into the most lovely garden, full of all manner of beautiful flowers an...

  • Thumbelina

    There was once a woman who wanted to have quite a tiny, little child, but she did not know where to get one from. So one day she went to an old Witch and said to her: 'I should so much like to have a tiny, little child; can you tell me where I can ge...

  • The Ugly Duckling

    It was under these burdocks that a duck had built herself a warm nest, and was not sitting all day on six pretty eggs. Five of them were white, but the sixth, which was larger than the others, was of an ugly grey colour. The duck was always puzzled a...

  • The White Duck

    Once upon a time a great and powerful King married a lovely Princess. No couple were ever so happy; but before their honeymoon was over they were forced to part, for the King had to go on a warlike expedition to a far country, and leave his young wif...

  • The White Slipper

    Once upon a time there lived a king who had a daughter just fifteen years old. And what a daughter Even the mothers who had daughters of their own could not help allowing that the princess was much more beautiful and graceful than any of them; and, ...

  • The White Wolf

    Once upon a time there was a king who had three daughters; they were all beautiful, but the youngest was the fairest of the three. Now it happened that one day their father had to set out for a tour in a distant part of his kingdom. Before he left, h...

  • The Witch in the Stone Boat

    There were once a King and a Queen, and they had a son called Sigurd, who was very strong and active, and good-looking. When the King came to be bowed down with the weight of years he spoke to his son, and said that now it was time for him to look ou...

  • The Wizard King

    In very ancient times there lived a King, whose power lay not only in the vast extent of his dominions, but also in the magic secrets of which he was master. After spending the greater part of his early youth in pleasure, he met a Princess of such re...

  • The Wonderful Birch

    ONCE upon a time there were a man and a woman, who had an only daughter. Now it happened that one of their sheep went astray, and they set out to look for it, and searched and searched, each in n different part of the wood. Then the good wife met a w...

  • The Wonderful Tune

    Maurice Connor was the king, and that's no small word, of all the pipers in Munster. He could play jig and reel without end, and Ollistrum's March, and the Eagle's Whistle, and the Hen's Concert, and odd tunes of every sort and kind. But he knew one ...

  • The Yellow Dwarf

    Once upon a time there lived a queen who had been the mother of a great many children, and of them all only one daughter was left. But then she was worth at least a thousand. Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in th...

  • The Young King of the Black Isles

    You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this country, the Black Isles, so called from the four little mountains which were once islands, while the capital was the place where now the great lake lies. My story will tell you how th...

  • Little Red Riding Hood

    Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman had made for her a little red riding-h...

  • The Monastery - Vol. I

  • Little Red Riding-Hood and Other Stories

    THE TALES in this volume are intended for children, who will like, it is hoped, the old stories that have pleased so many generations.

    The stories included are:

    Little Red Riding-Hood
    Snow-white and Rose-Red
    Hansel and Grette...

  • Ballads and Lyrics of Old France with Other Poems

    Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 " 20 July 1912) 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 ...

  • Old Friends, Epistolary Parody

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews Univer...

  • The International Library Of Famous Literature

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Gray Fairy Book

    "Some of the first, and best, stories we ever hear in our lives." -- Washington PostThe Gray Fairy Book has been admired time and time again, enchanting readers with its carefully crafted prose and eclectic assortment of fairy tales. Originall...

  • Adventures among Books

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  • Angling Sketches

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    'Angling Sketches'', published in 1895, shows Andrewís wide-ranging and comprehensive study of nature. It describes how something mysterious happened to the fish in the lakes and lagoons of Scotland. It changed their normal behavior and the way they...

  • The Animal Story Book

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  • The Arabian Nights

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    Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Begin...

  • Aucassin And Nicolete

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  • The Book of Romance

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    It is to be supposed that children do not read Prefaces; these are Bluebeard's rooms, which they are not curious to unlock. A few words may therefore be said about the Romances contained in this book. In the editor's opinion, romances are only fairy ...

  • The Brown Fairy Book

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  • The Clyde Mystery

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    • This book includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• This is an anthropological and archeological research on the River Clyde and reveals the secrets that the river hides from the science....

  • Cock Lane And Common Sense

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    Since the first publication of Cock Lane and Common-Sense in 1894, nothing has occurred to alter greatly the author's opinions. He has tried to make the Folklore Society see that such things as modern reports of wraiths, ghosts, 'fire-walking, ' 'cor...

  • Collected Works Of Andrew Lang

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  • The Companions Of Pickle; Being A Sequel To Pickle The Spy

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  • Custom and Myth

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  • The Dead Leman And Other Tales From The French

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  • The Disentanglers

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    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews Univer...

  • Essays In Little

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  • The Gold Of Fairnilee

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    For you, far away on the other side of the world, I made this little tale of our own country. Your father and I have dug for treasure in the Camp of Rink, with our knives, when we were boys. We did not find it: the story will tell you why....

  • The Golden Mermaid And Other Stories From The Fairy Books.

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  • Grass Of Parnassus

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  • The Grey Fairy Book

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  • He

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    DEAR ALLAN QUATERMAIN, You, who, with others, have aided so manfully in the Restoration of King Romance, know that His Majesty is a Merry Monarch. You will not think, therefore, that the respectful Liberty we have taken with your Wondrous Tale (as Pa...

  • Homer and His Age

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  • Homer And The Epic

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  • The Homeric Hymns

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  • How To Fail In Literature; A Lecture

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  • In The Wrong Paradise

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    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a...

  • James VI and the Gowrie Mystery

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  • Letters on Literature

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    In this collection of epistles, Lang has addressed some fictitious characters. Some of these correspondences are addressed to characters created by other authors; others are to the author’s own imagined personas. Through theses letters, Lang has im...

  • Lost Leaders

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  • The Making Of Religion

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    It is not of my own will, nor for my own glory, that I, Norman Leslie, sometime of Pitcullo, and in religion called Brother Norman, of the Order of Benedictines, of Dunfermline, indite this book. But on my coming out of France, in the year of our Lor...

  • The Man in the Iron Mask

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  • The Mark of Cain

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  • Modern Fictionology

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  • Modern Mythology

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  • A Monk of Fife

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  • Much Darker Days

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    A belief that modern Christmas fiction is too cheerful in tone, too artistic in construction, and too original in motive, has inspired the author of this tale of middle-class life. He trusts that he has escaped, at least, the errors he deplores, and ...

  • My Own Fairy Book

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  • The Novels Of Charles Lever, Volume 10

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  • The Nursery Rhyme Book

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    Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) 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 ar...

  • Old Friends

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  • Old Friends And The Library

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  • The Orange Fairy Book

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  • The Origins Of Religion, And Other Essays

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  • Oxford

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  • Pickle the Spy, or, The Incognito of Prince Charles

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    Pickle the Spy, Or, The Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1897 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes....

  • The Pink Fairy Book

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  • Prince Prigio

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  • Prince Ricardo Of Pantouflia

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  • The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot

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    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a...

  • The Red Book of Animal Stories

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    This collection of children's animal stories is a classic of juvenile literature and still delights children today, just as in the past.Not only do we find fiery dragons here, but dangerous dogs and demons; bears, bats, boars, and baboons; greyhounds...

  • Rhymes A La Mode

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    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a...

  • Secret of the Totem

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  • The Story of the Golden Fleece

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  • The Strife Of Love In A Dream - Being The Elizabethan Version Of The First Book Of The Hypnerotomachia Of Francesco Colonna.

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  • Tales from King Arthur

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  • Tales Of Romance

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  • That Very Mab

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  • Theocritus Bion And Moschus Rendered Into English Prose

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  • The Valet's Tragedy and Other Studies

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

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  • The Works Of Charles Dickens ...

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  • The Works Of Charles Dickens, Volume 32

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  • The Yellow Fairy Book

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    “Andrew Lang and his associates managed to break the stranglehold of the pious sentimentality handed out to children by collecting -- from all over the world -- fairy tales of all people, and bringing out the volumes we all know and love.” -- Kir...

  • Once Upon a Time – The Violet Book of Fairy Tales

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    Once Upon a Time – The Violet Book of Fairy Tales, also known as The Violet Fairy Tale Book, includes 62 illustrations, several in color along with a hyperlinked table of contents only found in this kindle version. There are 35 folktales from...

  • The Red Romance Book - Tales Of Knights, Dragons & High Adventure

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    "The Red Romance Book: Tales of Knights, Dragons & High Adventure" is a book of tales of heroism and legend, edited by Andrew Lang. It was first published in 1905. The stories were mostly taken from various sagas and chivalric romances, i...

  • Shakespeare, Bacon And The Great Unknown

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of Shakespeare's plays, has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to exp...

  • Tales of Troy - Ulysses the Sacker of Cities

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  • The Works Of Charles Dickens, Volume 4

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrew Lang has published 177 books.

Andrew Lang does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Gray Fairy Book, was published in June 2020.

The first book by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book, was published in June 1965.

No. Andrew Lang does not write books in series.
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