The Red Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
The Red Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
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The Red Fairy Book

Author: Andrew Lang

Narrator: James Smillie

Unabridged: 16 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2020


Synopsis

The Red Fairy Book is a collection of traditional stories for children from England, Ireland, France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Rumania, and Finland.

Narrated by the wonderful James Smillie, The Red Fairy book consists of 37 tales and is the second book in the series.

Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He initially edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run, while his wife, the translator and author Leonora Blanche Alleyne, known to friends and family as Nora, assumed editorial control of the series in the 1890s. She and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories, as acknowledged in the prefaces. Four of the volumes from 1908 to 1912 were published by "Mrs. Lang".

Andrew Lang (1844–1912)


About Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish man of letters educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford, became a prolific and versatile London journalist. He took a leading part in the controversy with Max Müller and his school about the interpretation of mythology and folk tales. He published several volumes of verse and several solid contributions to the study of the philosophy and religion of primitive man. He also wrote the four-volume History of Scotland, A History of English Literature, and many fairy-tale collections, as well as works on Homer, Joan of Arc, Scott, Lockhart, Mary Stuart, John Knox, Prince Charlie, Tennyson, and others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hiba⁷

Another one from the colored fairy books gone, ten left. The stories are so enjoyable, especially as an audiobook.......more

Goodreads review by Elinor

5/2023 reread: The Red Fairy Book will never be one of my top favorite fairy books, but most of the tales are enjoyable, although many feature repetitive motifs, and a good amount are treasures. I normally am not a big fan of Jack and the Beanstalk, but this version I love. Jack is not simply stealin......more