The Blue Fairy Book - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434440222 ISBN 13 : 9781434440228

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2025

Synopsis

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known for his collections of folk and fairy tales. The Blue Fairy Book contains some of the best known tales from several sources including the Brothers Grimm and The Arabian Nights "narrated in the clear, lively prose for which Lang was famous."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. 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 telling of the actual stories. The Blue Fairy Book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norse stories, among other sources. (wikipedia) Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk – July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at St Andrews University are named for him. Source: Wikipedia

Biographie de l'auteur

Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews, where a monument can be visited in the south-east corner of the 19th century section.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434440222
• ISBN 13: 9781434440228
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Ford H J H J, Jacomb Hood G P G P
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Lang Andrew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible