The Brown Fairy Book

Description of book

The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - Andrew Gabriel Lang, a prolific Scotsman of letters, contributed poetry, novels, literary criticism, and collected now best folklore.
Tales of known British writer and anthropologist Andrew Lang include The Blue Fairy Book (1889).

The Young Scholar and Journalist
Andrew Gabriel Lang, the son of the town clerk and the eldest of eight children, lived in Selkirk in the Scottish borderlands. The wild and beautiful landscape of childhood greatly affected the youth and inspired a lifelong love of the outdoors and a fascination with local folklore and history. Charles Edward Stuart and Robert I the Bruce surrounded him in the borders, a rich area in history. He later achieved his literary Short History of Scotland .

A gifted student and avid reader, Lang went to the prestigious Saint Andrews University, which now holds a lecture series in his honor every few years, and then to Balliol College, Oxford. He later published Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes about the city in 1880.

The Brown Fairy Book contains stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen and African Sothos, and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India:

"What the Rose did to the Cypress"
"Ball-Carrier and the Bad One"
"How Ball-Carrier finished his Task"
"The Bunyip"
"Father Grumbler"
"The Story of the Yara"
"The Cunning Hare"
"The Turtle and his Bride"
"How Geirald the Coward was Punished"
"Habogi"
"How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers"
"The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe"
"The Wicked Wolverine"
"The Husband of the Rat's Daughter"
"The Mermaid and the Boy"
"Pivi and Kabo"
"The Elf Maiden"
"How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones"
"Fortune and the Wood-Cutter"
"The Enchanted Head"
"The Sister of the Sun"
"The Prince and the Three Fates"
"The Fox and the Lapp"
"Kisa the Cat"
"The Lion and the Cat"
"Which was the Foolishest?"
"Asmund and Signy"
"Rübezahl"
"Story of the King who would be Stronger than Fate"
"Story of Wali Dad the Simple-hearted"
"Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey"
"The Knights of the Fish"