The Grey Fairy Book

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The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

Thirty-five stories, many from oral traditions, and others from French, German and Italian collections.
"Donkey Skin"
"The Goblin Pony"
"An Impossible Enchantment"
"The Story of Dschemil and Dschemila"
"Janni and the Draken"
"The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar"
"Fortunatus and his Purse"
"The Goat-faced Girl"
"What came of picking Flowers"
"The Story of Bensurdatu"
"The Magician's Horse"
"The Little Gray Man"
"Herr Lazarus and the Draken"
"The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles"
"Udea and her Seven Brothers"
"The White Wolf"
"Mohammed with the Magic Finger"
"Bobino"
"The Dog and the Sparrow"
"The Story of the Three Sons of Hali"
"The Story of the Fair Circassians"
"The Jackal and the Spring"
"The Bear"
"The Sunchild"
"The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch"
"Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox"
"The Unlooked for Prince"
"The Simpleton"
"The Street Musicians"
"The Twin Brothers"
"Cannetella"
"The Ogre"
"A Fairy's Blunder"
"Long, Broad, and Quickeye"
"Prunella"

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.