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    A Tale of Fairyland (the Princess Nobody)
    A Tale of Fairyland (the Princess Nobody)
    A Tale of Fairyland (the Princess Nobody)
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    A Tale of Fairyland (the Princess Nobody)

    By Richard Doyle and Andrew Lang

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    Charming illustrations enhance the narrative of a much-loved classic that tells the story of Prince Comical and his search for the diminutive princess without a name. Elves, fairies, dwarfs and other denizens of fairyland will prove irresistible to anyone enchanted by the fantasy world of sprites and other little people.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9780486173078
    A Tale of Fairyland (the Princess Nobody)
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    Richard Doyle

    Richard Doyle is an old-school SF fan who began writing seriously in 2001. He has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and collaborated on a book in 2006. He has had poems published in the UK poetry magazines Orbis and Sarasvati and  is a regular member of the Bristol Stanza Poetry Group. His debut pamphlet The death of the sentence was published in 2020. Two of his poems appear in the Bristol Stanza pamphlet The Weather Indoors (2021).

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      A Tale of Fairyland (the Princess Nobody) - Richard Doyle

      A Tale of Fairyland

      (The Princess Nobody)

      Richard Doyle

      Andrew Lang

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2000 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

      Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition of A Tale of Fairyland: The Princess Nobody, first published in 2000, is an unabridged, slightly corrected, enlarged reproduction of The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland, originally published by Longmans, Green and Co., London, in 1884. All art reproduced from In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf World by Richard Doyle published by Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1870. Additional full-color reproductions of Doyle’s 1870 illustrations have been added and all the black-and-white reproductions used in the 1884 edition have been replaced with full-color ones. In addition, a Publisher’s Note has been specially prepared for this edition.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Lang, Andrew, 1844–1912.

      [Princess Nobody]

      A tale of Fairyland : (the Princess Nobody) / with 61 full-color illustrations by Richard Doyle ; text by Andrew Lang.—Dover ed.

      p. cm.

      An unabridged, enlarged reproduction of the work published by Longmans, Green ... London, in 1884 ... Additional full-color reproductions of Doyle’s 1870 illustrations have been added-T.p. verso.

      Summary: The King and Queen of the country next to Fairyland long for a child and are finally blessed with a daughter, the Princess Niente.

      9780486173078

      [1. Fairy tales.] I. Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, ill. II. Title.

      PZ8.L15 Tal 2000

      [Fic]—dc21

      00-031395

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE

      THE PRINCESS NOBODY

      ADDITIONAL FULL-COLOR PLATES

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE

      When the enchanting, oversized book In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf- World was first published (1870), it contained thirty-four delightfully whimsical color illustrations by Richard Doyle and a poem

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