Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

The Blue Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic.

The Brown Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic.

The Crimson Fairy Book

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The Crimson Fairy Book contains thirty-six stories collected from around the world and edited by Andrew Lang.

The Green Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.

The Grey Fairy Book

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The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world.

The Lilac Fairy Book

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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.

The Olive Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang’s Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic.

The Orange Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally, made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English.

The Pink Fairy Book

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A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book.

The Red Fairy Book

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The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books.

The Violet Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang’s Violet Fairy Book (1901) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic.

The Yellow Fairy Book

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A collection of great stories written in 1894 for children. The Yellow Fairy Book is the fourth in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books.