The Olive Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

ISBN 10: 0486219089 / ISBN 13: 9780486219080

Edité par Dover Publications, Incorporated, 1968

N° de réf. du vendeur 26783145

Synopsis :

The Olive Fairy Book includes unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France. But all of the stories are told in the common language of the fairy tale, and their heroes -- the Green Knight who is saved by a soup made from nine snakes, the lovely Dorani who flies every night to fairyland, the king who understands the language of the animals -- will be welcome to children and grown-ups alike.
All in all, this collection contains 29 stories, all narrated in clear lively prose. Not only are Lang's collections generally considered to contain the best English versions of the standard stories; they are the richest and widest in range.
"Admirable series of photographic reprints of the first editions. Altogether very good value." -- New York Review of Books.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Many years ago my friend and publisher, Mr. Charles Longman, presented me with Le Cabinet desF ies (T he Fairy Cabinet ). This work almost requires a swinging bookcase for its accommodation, like theE ncyclopaedia Britannica, and in a revolving bookcase I bestowed the volumes. Circumstances of an intimately domestic character, not wholly unconnected, as Mr. Micawber might have said, with the narrowness of my study (in which it is impossible to swing a cat ), prevent the revolving bookcase from revolving at this moment. I can see, however, that the Fairy Cabinet contains at least forty volumes, and I think there are about sixty in all. This great plenitude of fairy tales from all quarters presents legends of fairies, witches, geni or Djinn, monsters, dragons, wicked stepmothers, princesses, pretty or plain, princes lucky or unlucky, giants, dwarfs, and enchantments. The stories begin with those which children like best the old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop dmy Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written, and printed atP aris in 1697. The author wasM onsieur Charles Perrault, a famous personage in a great perruque, who in his day wrote large volumes now unread.
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Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Olive Fairy Book
Éditeur : Dover Publications, Incorporated
Date d'édition : 1968
Reliure : Couverture souple
Illustrateur : H. J. Ford
Etat : New