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The Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang (Illustrator: H. J. Ford)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2005-06-23)
ISBN: 1417924691
EAN: 9781417924691
Dewey Decimal #: 813
Binding/Media: Paperback - 416 pages
SKU: 1026H515412
Condition: Good
Comments: DIFFERENT COVER & EDITION. This is the 1964 Dover trade paperback edition of Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book. This is an unabridged & unaltered republication of the 1891 edition, with 8 plates, 130 additional illustrations by Henry Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. Pages clean, wraps have moderate rubbing and shelf wear, two creases. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in Lang's series of fairy tale books of many colors. It contains some the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame d'Aulnoy, The Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions, a total of 37 stories all narrated in the clear, lively prose for which Lang is so well known. {chk dups}
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
1889. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in Lang's series of fairy tale books of many colors. It contains some the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame d'Aulnoy, The Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions, a total of 37 stories all narrated in the clear, lively prose for which Lang is so well known. A classic that will bring joy to the reader for years to come. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Customer Reviews
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beautiful
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-06-08
This was a wonderful collection. My only complaint is the last story is written as it would have been spoken, which is great if your Scottish, but being I couldn't figure it out.
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POD (Print on Demand) Book
Rating  (2)
Date: 2010-01-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is a mass market rip off not only does it have over one hundred extra pages because of the large font but there is no table of contents its just awful.
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Love the artwork
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-11-02
Am starting to collect for sharing with my grandchildren. I loved these stories and hope they will, too.
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This is not the edition you want
Rating  (1)
Date: 2009-08-21
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have been in love with Andrew Lang's fairy tail books for decades, and sorely regret my passing on to others my old Dover copies of five of the colored books, including the first, the Blue Fairy Book. So I came to replace all these editions, but I did not immediately find the Dover version of the Blue book. So, without much investigation, I ordered this, plus the eleven others in the Dover edition. I could not have been more disappointed if Amazon had sent me the wrong book (which, by the way, they have NEVER done). Maybe I would have been less disappointed with the wrong book, because serendipity may have done me a favor.
This edition is virtually worthless, as it has none of the illustrations and it has no table of contents. Even worse, the names of the various tales are not even in the header of each page. What is doubly surprising is that the price is virtually the same as the Dover editions with all the illustrations, preface, dedication, and T of C of the original. All the nice things other reviewers have said about the stories is perfectly true. Just don't get them in this edition. Look for the Dover edition or any other which promises all the illustrations.
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fairy tales
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-05-14
2 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
These books are all fairy tales EDITED by Andrew Lang he has written none of them which is exactly what I had expected when I got it. If you get this because you want an Andrew Lang book, well that's just silly. It says on the front cover that he edited them.
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