The Blue Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1440470014 / ISBN 13: 9781440470011

Edité par CreateSpace Independent Publishi, 2008

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Synopsis :

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a 12 book series of fairy tale collections.

The Blue Fairy Book includes 37 stories, including the orginal versions of classic tales such as:

Little Red Riding Hood
Sleeping Beauty
The Beauty and the Beast
and many, many more

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 bibliographiques

Titre : The Blue Fairy Book
Éditeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishi
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Very Good