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    The Crimson Fairy Book

    By Andrew Lang

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    Contents:

    Preface
    Lovely Ilonka
    Lucky Luck
    The Hairy Man
    To Your Good Health!
    The Story of the Seven Simons
    The Language of Beasts
    The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret
    The Prince And The Dragon
    Little Wildrose
    Tiidu The Piper
    Paperarelloo
    The Gifts Of The Magician
    The Strong Prince
    The Treasure Seeker
    The Cottager And His Cat
    The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality
    The Stone-Cutter
    The Gold-Bearded Man
    Tritill, Litill, And The Birds
    The Three Robes
    The Six Hungry Beasts
    How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro
    The Rogue And The Herdsman
    Eisenkopf
    The Death Of Abu Nowas And Of His Wife
    Motiratika
    Niels And The Giants
    Shepherd Paul
    How The Wicked Tanuki Was Punished
    The Crab And The Monkey
    The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder
    The Story Of The Sham Prince, Or The Ambitious Tailor
    The Colony Of Cats
    How To Find Out A True Friend
    Clever Maria
    The Magic Kettle
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAB Books
    Release dateMay 11, 2018
    ISBN9782291023180
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    Andrew Lang

    Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 – July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang’s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew’s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang’s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture “On Fairy-Stories.”

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      This is a revised version of one of Andrew Lang's famous series of folktale collections for children. Its forward says that this version does not include some of the original stories that had been "systematically skipped" by earlier readers (I wonder how the revisers knew?).