Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. 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.
This ebook edition of the Yellow Fairy Book contains all of the beautiful H. J. Ford illustrations.
Table of Contents:
THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
THE SIX SWANS
THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH
STORY OF THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
THE GOLDEN CRAB
THE IRON STOVE
THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER
THE DONKEY CABBAGE
THE LITTLE GREEN FROG
THE SEVEN-HEADED SERPENT
THE GRATEFUL BEASTS
THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY
THE INVISIBLE PRINCE
THE CROW
HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD
THE WIZARD KING
THE NIXY
THE GLASS MOUNTAIN
ALPHEGE, OR THE GREEN MONKEY
FAIRER-THAN-A-FAIRY
THE THREE BROTHERS
THE BOY AND THE WOLVES, OR THE BROKEN PROMISE
THE GLASS AXE
THE DEAD WIFE
IN THE LAND OF SOULS
THE WHITE DUCK
THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS
THE MAGIC RING
THE FLOWER QUEEN'S DAUGHTER
THE FLYING SHIP
THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON
THE STORY OF KING FROST
THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO
THE WITCH
THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD
THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS
PRINCE RING
THE SWINEHERD
HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS
THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
THE TINDER-BOX
THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT
THUMBELINA
THE NIGHTINGALE
HERMOD AND HADVOR
THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER
BLOCKHEAD HANS
A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE
