The Pink Fairy Book - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604597518 ISBN 13 : 9781604597516

Editeur : Flying Chipmunk Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

"The Pink Fairy Book", the fifth in Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Book series, was originally published in 1897. This edition contains all 41 of the original stories and all 69 of the original black-and-white illustrations. *** The collections were specifically intended for children, and consequently edited for that end. *** When Andrew began publishing these books there were almost no English fairy tale books in circulation. The series proved of great influence in children's literature, and inspired a host of imitators. The series also proved to be an inspiration to J.R. Tolken and his Middle-Earth collection of novels. *** This book contains these stories: The Cat's Elopement; How the Dragon Was Tricked; The Goblin and the Grocer; The House in the Wood; Uraschimataro and the Turtle; The Slaying of the Tanuki; The Flying Trunk; The Snow-man; The Shirt-collar; The Princess in the Chest; The Three Brothers; The Snow-queen; The Fir-tree; Hans, the Mermaid's Son; Peter Bull; The Bird 'Grip'; Snowflake; I Know What I Have Learned; The Cunning Shoemaker; The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife; Catherine and Her Destiny; How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter; The Water of Life; The Wounded Lion; The Man Without a Heart; The Two Brothers; Master and Pupil; The Golden Lion; The Sprig of Rosemary; The White Dove; The Troll's Daughter; Esben and the Witch; Princess Minon-minette; Maiden Bright-eye; The Merry Wives; King Lindorm; The Jackal; the Dove; and the Panther; The Little Hare; The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue; The Story of Ciccu; and Don Giovanni De La Fortuna. * * * * Check out the other Andrew Lang books published by Flying Chipmunk Publishing at www.FlyingChipmunkPublishing.com, or Friend us on Facebook for our latest releases.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A jaj people in the world tell nursery tales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts. The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modem Greeks, just as the old Egyptians did, when Moses had not been many years rescued out of the bulrushes. The Germans, French, Spanish, I talians, Danes, Highlanders tell them also, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. 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, if he examines and compares. But the Japanese tales wi Uprobably be new to the young student; the Tanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may not have made before. He may remark that Andersen wants to point a moral, as well as to adorn a tale; that he is trying to make fun of the fo Uies of mankind, as they exist in civilised countries. The Danish story of The Princess in the Chest need not be read to a very nervous child, as it rather borders on a ghost story.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Biographie de l'auteur

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. Although he 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 the collections immensely influential. Lang gave many of the 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 retelling of the actual stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flying Chipmunk Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604597518
• ISBN 13: 9781604597516
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Ford H J
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Lang Andrew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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