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Beauty and the Beast - All Four Versions by Jeanne De Beaumont; Gabrielle De Villeneuve; Brothers Grimm; Andrew Lang; Margaret Hunt (Translator); James Planche (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Beauty and the Beast - All Four Versions includes the original, adult-oriented edition of the story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (translated from the French by James Robinson Planch ), the simplified and shortened version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont which appeared sixteen years lat ...Show more
Fairy Tales from Around the World (Leather bound) by H. J. Ford (Illustrator); Andrew Lang (Compiled by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions Ser.
Fairy Tales from Around the World is a treasure trove of the world's best-loved fairy and folk tales. It features more than 100 fairy tales representing more than fifty nations, all selected from The Blue Fairy Book and eleven other collections compiled by Andrew Lang. The book also includes more than 1 ...Show more
Secret Commonwealth of Elves and Fairies by Robert Kirk; Andrew Lang (Introduction by); R. B. Cunninghame Graham (Introduction by)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology."--Times Literary SupplementIn the late seventeenth century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking to h ...Show more
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Children's Classics
To save herself from certain death, the beautiful Scheherazade must beguile a Persian sultan with her enchanting stories. In two of her most well-known tales, Aladdin and Ali Baba's cleverness and quick-thinking save the dayand a great treasure. Andrew Lang’s masterful version of these ancient Middle E ...Show more
Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Faber Children's Classics Ser.
Tales of Troy and Greece is the 1907 work by the famous author Andrew Lang. Lang draws on classical recounts to tell the story of the Homeric epic of the Trojan war. His book covers all the major events and characters from Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, and Agamemnon, to the Amazons, t ...Show more
Tales of Troy and Greece (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Andrew Lang
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in t ...Show more
The Arabian Nights - the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor and other stories by Andrew Lang
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Having invited his brother, Schahzeman, to pay a royal visit, Schahriar finds hid fraternal guest sadly out of humour. The cause of Schahzeman's ailment is his wife's infidelity, which he has remedied by smiting her and her lover. His mood improves when he discovers that Schahriar is being similarly dup ...Show more
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Category: Classics
Once upon a time there lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry anyone, because she was under an enchantment. So the King set out to seek a fairy, and asked what he could do to win the Princess's love - The Blue Fairy Book is the first in a series of fairy-tale anthol ...Show more
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Category: Children's
The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of 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. Here in one attrac ...Show more