The Yellow Fairy Book: Top Fairy Tales
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THE SIX SWANS
THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH(2)
STORY OF THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES(4)
THE GOLDEN CRAB(5)
THE IRON STOVE(7)
THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER
HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD
THE GLASS MOUNTAIN(16)
THE DEAD WIFE(20)
IN THE LAND OF SOULS (21)
THE WHITE DUCK
THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS(22)
THE MAGIC RING
THE FLOWER QUEEN'S DAUGHTER(23)
THE FLYING SHIP(24)
THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON(25)
THE STORY OF KING FROST (26)
THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO (27)
THE WITCH (28)
THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD (29)
THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS
PRINCE RING (30)
THE SWINEHERD
HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS
THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
THE TINDER-BOX
THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT(31)
THUMBELINA
THE NIGHTINGALE
HERMOD AND HADVOR (32)
THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER
BLOCKHEAD-HANS
A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE
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Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.
