The Red Fairy Book V/A

The Red Fairy Book

By Various

Edited by Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories.

According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession--literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel...he is best recognized for the works he did not write."

CONTENTS

PREFACETHE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSESTHE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOMSORIA MORIA CASTLETHE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESSTHE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN. THE MASTER THIEFBROTHER AND SISTERPRINCESS ROSETTETHE NORKATHE WONDERFUL BIRCHJACK AND THE BEANSTALKTHE LITTLE GOOD MOUSEGRACIOSA AND PERCINETTHE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELANDTHE VOICE OF DEATHTHE SIX SILLIESKARI WOODENGOWNDRAKESTAILTHE RATCATCHERTHE TRUE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOLDEN HOODTHE GOLDEN BRANCHTHE THREE DWARFSDAPPLEGRIMTHE ENCHANTED CANARYTHE TWELVE BROTHERSRAPUNZELTHE NETTLE SPINNERFARMER WEATHERBEARDMOTHER HOLLEMINNIKINBUSHY BRIDESNOWDROPTHE GOLDEN GOOSETHE SEVEN FOALSTHE MARVELLOUS MUSICIANTHE STORY OF SIGURD