Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's 12 Coloured Fairy Books are some of his best known works. The Orange Fairy Book gathers 33 tales from Jutland, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and various other European traditions. In the Preface to the third volume, Lang expressed the view that it would be "probably the last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded a further 2 collections after this one.

Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology. In Lang's Helen of Troy, a story in rhyme of the fortunes of Helen, the theory that she was an unwilling victim of the Gods has been preferred. Many of the descriptions of manners are versified from the Iliad and the Odyssey. The description of the events after the death of Hector, and the account of the sack of Troy, is chiefly borrowed from Quintus Smyrnaeus. The character and history of Helen of Troy have been conceived of in very different ways by poets and mythologists.

Andrew Lang's 12 Coloured Fairy Books are some of his best known works. In The Pink Fairy Book, the fifth in the series, Lang includes forty-one Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales. In the Preface to the third volume, Lang expressed the view that it would be "probably the last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded a further 7 collections after this one.

Andrew Lang's 12 Coloured Fairy Books are some of his best known works. In The Yellow Fairy Book, the fourth in the series, Lang includes tales from all over the world, with many fairy ales from Hans Christian Andersen. In the Preface to the third volume, Lang expressed the view that it would be "probably the last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded a further 8 collections after this one.

Andrew Lang's 12 Coloured Fairy Books are some of his best known works. The Brown Fairy Book includes stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen and Africans, and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India.

Andrew Lang's 12 Coloured Fairy Books are some of his best known works. The Violet Fairy Book gathers 35 stories from Romania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books - also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors - are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. 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.

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