The Red Fairy Book

Description of book

The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - appeared at Christmas 1890 in a first printing of 10,000 copies. Sources include French, Russian, Danish, and Romanian tales as well as Norse mythology.

"The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
"The Princess Mayblossom"
"Soria Moria Castle"
"The Death of Koschei the Deathless"
"The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen"
"The Master Thief"
"Brother and Sister"
"Princess Rosette"
"The Enchanted Pig"
"The Norka"
"The Wonderful Birch"
"Jack and the Beanstalk"
"The Little Good Mouse"
"Graciosa and Percinet"
"The Three Princesses of Whiteland"
"The Voice of Death [fr]"
"The Six Sillies"
"Kari Woodengown"
"Drakestail"
"The Ratcatcher"
"The True History of Little Goldenhood"
"The Golden Branch"
"The Three Dwarfs"
"Dapplegrim"
"The Enchanted Canary"
"The Twelve Brothers"
"Rapunzel"
"The Nettle Spinner"
"Farmer Weatherbeard"
"Mother Holle"
"Minnikin"
"Bushy Bride"
"Snowdrop"
"The Golden Goose"
"The Seven Foals"
"The Marvellous Musician"
"The Story of Sigurd"

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.