The Grey Fairy Book Andrew Lang 9781466203952 Books
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The Grey Fairy Book Andrew Lang 9781466203952 Books
Dover Publishing has done an excellent job designing this book series in paperback. They are larger than average books and the illustrations are outstanding quality and very clear and detailed. I made a mistake and ordered this same book published by Flying Chipmunk Publications - it was a major mistake because their version has faded, smeary illustrations and the books looks cheap compared to the Dover books. These stories are a collection of rather sophisticated folk tales and fairy tales - geared towards adults and older children.Only two of the stories in this volume left something to be desired - too convoluted and badly translated and edited. I particularly loved, "The Ogre" and the illustration for it. The Folio Society in England recently printed a hardback version of 8 of these books. They are very expensive, gorgeous and lavish, but many of the illustrations pale compared to the original pictures in the Dover books. I strongly recommend these delightful books! Get the whole series while it's still available in print. You definitely don't want to read these on a machine!
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The Grey Fairy Book Andrew Lang 9781466203952 Books Reviews
Andrew Lang's fairy books are a treasure of old myths from various cultures, from Europe to Africa, even some from Asia.
The fascinating stories in the book give an invaluable glimpse into the mindsets of people thousands of years ago, people who put their beliefs and their morality into these stories.
Everyone who is interested in Fantasy books should read Andrew Lang. This is the basis of modern Fantasy, from vampires to dragons to demons. Fantasy starts here and if you want to understand fantasy, start with Andrew Lang.
Of course, reading it may be difficult to some because the effort to make these stories palpable to the modern reader has not been undertaken.
very satisfied
Good resource material for writers and people who love the little people.
is part of a series by Andrew Lang reading them all together makes for a great read but separated they get a little wishy washy my suggestion is read them all at once or not at all
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Fast shipping. Great item. Would purchase again.
In the late 19th century, historian, scholar, and anthropologist, Andrew Lang, began publishing collections of fairy tales from around the world. The first volume was `The Blue Fairy Book' published in 1887. Lang was not a true ethnologist, like the German Brothers Grimm. He was far more the `translator' than collector of tales from the source, stories transcribed from being told by people to whom the tales were passed down by word of mouth. In fact, many stories in his first volume, such as Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Sleeping Beauty; Cinderella; and Hansel and Gretel were translated from Grimm's books of fairy tales. Some of his `fairy tales' were even `copied from relatively recent fantasy fiction, such as A Voyage to Lilliput, the first of the four episodes in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
My inspiration for commenting Lang's series of fairy tale books is for the sheer quantity of tales, the wonderful woodcut illustrations, some few of which may have become almost as popular as the tales (although not quite in the same league as Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Lewis Carroll's great fantasies), and the fact that I had these when I was young.
With twelve of these books, with between 30 and 36 stories in each book, this gives one about 400 different stories. If I were to recommend anything as standard equipment at a grandparents' house, it would be a complete set of these books.
Needless to say, there are a few `warnings' to accompany books assembled over 100 years ago. You will encounter a fair number of words with which even an adult may be unfamiliar, let alone a five year old. For example, on the second page of The Princess Mayblossom in The Red Fairy Book, a character puts sulfur in a witch's porridge. This requires at least three explanations. What is sulfur, what is porridge, and why is sulfur in porridge such a bad thing. More difficult still is when a prince entered the town on a white horse which `pranced and caracoled to the sound of the trumpets'. In 19th century London, caracoling (making half turns to the right and the left) was probably as common and as well known as `stepping on the gas' is today. But, if you're a grandparent, that's half the fun, explaining new words and ideas to the young-uns.
There is another `danger' which may require just a bit more explanation, although in today's world of crime dramas on TV, I'm not sure that most kids are already totally immune to being shocked by death and dead bodies. In these stories, lots of people and creatures get killed in very unpleasant ways, and lots of very good people and creatures suffer in very unpleasant ways. It's ironic that the critics in Lang's own time felt the stories were 'unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age'. The success of a whole library of Walt Disney feature length cartoons based on these stories is a testament to how well they work with children. But do be warned, Uncle Walt did clean things up a bit. Lang's versions hold back on very little that was ugly and unpleasant in some of these stories.
The down side to the great quantity of stories is that even when some come from very different parts of the world, there is a remarkable amount of overlap in theme, plot, and characters. But by the time you get to another story of a beautiful young girl mistreated by a stepmother, it will have been several month since you read Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper in The Blue Fairy Book. The other side of the coin is that you can play the game of trying to recall what that other story was with a similar theme.
There is one very big word of caution about buying these books through or a similar on line outlet. I stopped counting when I got to twelve different editions of The Blue Fairy Book, or a volume including several of these books. Not all of these editions have the original woodcuts and even worse, not all have a table of contents and introduction. The one publisher which has all twelve volumes is by Dover. Other publishers, such as Flying Chipmunk Publishing (yes, that's it's name) also have all the original illustrations, table of contents, and introduction, but I'm not certain that publisher has all twelve volumes. Dover most certainly does, as I just bought all twelve of them from .
While I suspect these stories may have been `old hat' for quite some time, it may be that with the popularity of Lord of the Rings, the Narnia stories, and the Harry Potter stories, all of which have their share of suffering and death, that these may be in for a revival. Again, the main attraction is that for relatively little money and space, Grammy and Grandad get a great resource for bonding with children.
Dover Publishing has done an excellent job designing this book series in paperback. They are larger than average books and the illustrations are outstanding quality and very clear and detailed. I made a mistake and ordered this same book published by Flying Chipmunk Publications - it was a major mistake because their version has faded, smeary illustrations and the books looks cheap compared to the Dover books. These stories are a collection of rather sophisticated folk tales and fairy tales - geared towards adults and older children.
Only two of the stories in this volume left something to be desired - too convoluted and badly translated and edited. I particularly loved, "The Ogre" and the illustration for it. The Folio Society in England recently printed a hardback version of 8 of these books. They are very expensive, gorgeous and lavish, but many of the illustrations pale compared to the original pictures in the Dover books. I strongly recommend these delightful books! Get the whole series while it's still available in print. You definitely don't want to read these on a machine!
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