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The Blue Fairy Book (Coloured Fairy Books #1)

Andrew Lang

Paperback | Pages: 390 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 8799 Users | 328 Reviews

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Title	:	The Blue Fairy Book (Coloured Fairy Books #1)
Author	:	Andrew Lang
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Dover
Pages	:	Pages: 390 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1965 by Dover Publications (first published 1889)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Classics. Fairy Tales. Fiction. Childrens. Short Stories

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The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions. Here in one attractive paperbound volume - with enlarged print - are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltzkin, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Trusty John, Jack and the Giantkiller, Goldilocks, and many other favorites that have become an indispensable part of our culture heritage.

All in all, this collection contains 37 stories, all arranged in the clear, lively prose for which Lang was famous. Not only are Lang's generally conceded to be the best English versions of standard stories, his collections are the richest and widest in range. His position as one of England's foremost folklorists as well as his first-rate literary abilities makes his collection invaluable in the English language.

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Original Title:	The Blue Fairy Book
ISBN:	0486214370 (ISBN13: 9780486214375)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Coloured Fairy Books #1

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Some of these are familiar - Red Riding Hood suffers a brutal end, Rumpelstiltskin gets ripped off again, Cinderella earns her name by cleaning out the chimney and having dainty feet, but Jack and the Giant-killer makes you wonder how we got the modern day Jack and the Beanstalk. Toss in a sedate and castle-heavy Aladdin and it just doesn't hold as much charm. The Story of Pretty Goldilocks is definitely not the version with three bears and porridge. The Bronze Ring is long-winded, bizarre, all

It would appear that Lang compiled these stories "as is" without any editing. Some were very good and some were very bad. It didn't help that the narrator of my audiobook version got very screechy with some of her voices.Still, it was a fascinating look at some of the original versions of famous tales. In this book's version of Sleeping Beauty, she and the prince had to hide their kids from his mother who was an ogre who loved to eat children. (!) In Red Riding Hood no hunter comes in to save

Haha! These are great! Creepy and funny and gruesome. These ARE your grandmother's fairytales! HeeHeeHee!

A wonderful collection of fairy tales from around the world. Many of these are gruesome, however, the gruesomeness is never pretended to be good. In fairy tales, good is good and evil is evil; there is no confusion. Keep in mind what Chesterton said as well, Fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

The stories in this collection have an amazing range, and Lang is good enough to cite his source for almost all of his tales. There are 37 stories total, including six selections from Grimm, five from Perrault, a couple Scots tales (in dialect, sort of), a few British traditionals, three from the Arabian Nights, the part of Gulliver's Travels about Lilliput, and a full retelling of the Perseus myth with different names. It's almost overwhelming.A few of them are really unique ones.The History of

2.5I wasn't expecting too much from this book. It was exactly what I thought it would be. Hopefully the next books will be a bit better.

"She lives in a castle which lies east of the sun and west of the moon..."Of all the fairy book spectrum, I'm glad I started with blue. More than a few old favourites in here, in particular the stories East of the Sun, West of the Moon, and Beauty and the Beast. It's lovely regardless, I think, to fall every now and then into a world where, even before first sight, people can fall so deeply in love that they can't eat or drink (view spoiler)[not the sort of behaviour that ought to be encouraged,