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By: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) | |
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The Green Fairy Book
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 Pink Fairy Book
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, 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. Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand. So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales... | |
The Orange Fairy Book
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 Grey Fairy Book
The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries—Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss Blackley, and Miss hang. 'The Three Sons of Hali' is from the last century 'Cabinet des Fees,' a very large collection. The French author may have had some Oriental original before him in parts; at all events he copied the Eastern method of putting tale within tale, like the Eastern balls of carved ivory... | |
HE
This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. Her beauties are beyond the reach of danger from Burlesque, nor does her form flit across our humble pages.” (taken from the Dedication) | |
The Crimson Fairy Book
The Crimson Fairy Book contains thirty-six stories collected from around the world and edited by Andrew Lang. Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian nurseries; the Servians are responsible for some; a rather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; others from sunny Sicily; a few are from Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Tunis, and Portugal... | |
The Brown Fairy Book
Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. | |
Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 | |
The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang | |
Violet Fairy Book
Andrew Lang’s Violet Fairy Book (1901) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. | |
Ban and Arriere Ban | |
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown | |
The Lilac Fairy Book | |
Helen of Troy | |
Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities
These are short stories about the life of Ulysses, the stealing of Helen, Paris, battles, Trojan horses, and more! | |
The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological | |
Modern Mythology | |
Essays in Little | |
Adventures Among Books | |
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts | |
The True Story Book | |
John Knox and the Reformation | |
Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) | |
Tales of Troy and Greece | |
The Red True Story Book | |
Books and Bookmen | |
Letters on Literature | |
James VI and the Gowrie Mystery | |
Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" | |
Angling Sketches | |
Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son | |
Lost Leaders | |
The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore | |
Custom and Myth New Edition | |
The Library | |
The Disentanglers | |
A Monk of Fife | |
New Collected Rhymes | |
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles | |
Introduction to the Compleat Angler | |
Alfred Tennyson | |
The Mark Of Cain | |
Cock Lane and Common-Sense | |
How to Fail in Literature; a lecture | |
Ballads in Blue China |
By: R. F. Murray (1863-1894) | |
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Wasted Day
Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published occasionally in periodicals. |
By: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) | |
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Prince Prigio | |
The Valet's tragedy, and other studies | |
Oxford | |
Homer and His Age | |
The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot | |
Grass of Parnassus | |
Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy | |
The Making of Religion | |
In the Wrong Paradise | |
Rhymes a la Mode | |
Much Darker Days | |
Letters to Dead Authors | |
Custom and Myth
CUSTOM AND MYTHINTRODUCTION.Though some of the essays in this volume have appeared in various serials, the majority of them were written expressly for their present purpose, and they are now arranged in a designed order. During some years of study of Greek, Indian, and savage mythologies, I have become more and more impressed with a sense of the inadequacy of the prevalent method of comparative mythology. That method is based on the belief that myths are the result of a disease of language, as the pearl is the result of a disease of the oyster... |
By: René Descartes (1596-1650) | |
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The foundations of modern skepticism and objective thinking are thought to be rooted in the philosophy of Rene Descartes, the French mathematician, philosopher and writer. This great sixteenth century thinker also gave us theories on mind-body dualism and the concept of ethics as the highest form of science. He is considered the Father of Modern Western Philosophy. His theories also led to the emancipation of humanity from the doctrine that the Church is the sole authority over Man and led to a more autonomous idea of the human condition... |