- Paperback: 828 pages
- Publisher: Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax Ltd (1 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954840151
- ISBN-13: 978-0954840150
- Product Dimensions: 29.8 x 21 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 427,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Fairy tales are the oldest stories in the world. They were first made by adults who were childlike for their own amusement, and so they amuse children still, and also grown-up people who have not forgotten how they once were children. The stories in these books are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English, one Chinese. However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales. The reason, no doubt, is that men were much like children in their minds long ago, long, long ago, and so before they took to writing newspapers, and sermons, and novels, and long poems, they told each other stories, such as you read in the fairy books. They believed that witches could turn people into beasts, that beasts could speak, that magic rings could make their owners invisible, and all the other wonders in the stories. Then, as the world became grown-up, the fairy tales which were not written down would have been quite forgotten but that the old grannies remembered them, and told them to the little grandchildren: and when they, in their turn, became grannies, they remembered them, nd told them also. In this way these tales are older than reading and writing, far older than printing. (Unexpurgated edition of Andrew Lang's Complete "Fairy Book" Series, including The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac Fairy Books. "The Rose Fairy Book" is not included in this anthology, because the stories it contains can be found in the Grey, Brown, Pink, Lilac and Orange Fairy Books.)
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For two days Aladdin remained in the dark, crying and lamenting. At last he clasped his hands in prayer, and in so doing rubbed the ring, which the magician had forgotten to take from him.
Immediately an enormous and frightful genie rose out of the earth, saying: "What wouldst thou with me? I am the Slave of the Ring, and will obey thee in all things."
Aladdin fearlessly replied: "Deliver me from this place!" whereupon the earth opened....
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing compendium of the coloured Fairy Books,
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This review is from: 12 Books in 1: Andrew Lang's Complete "Fairy Book" Series. The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac Fairy Books. Traditional Folk Tales and Fairy Stories From Around The World. (Paperback)
As a fan of the different coloured Fairy Books, I thought I'd buy this for my daughter. We were both disappointed for several reasons.
This book is unweildy, like a volume of the Yellow Pages, and not at all conducive to reading in bed. It is also, like the phonebook, very floppy. (I don't know if this is on account of the type of paper used or not, but the cover has considerably less rigidity than an average paperback.) Then, there's the typesetting. After reading a few pages, I have to wonder if this book is not the product of somebody scanning in copies of the original books into MS Word or some such, and just printing it out in two columns per page, cramming as much as possible into the smallest paper area. It has that look, you see. The print is small, the stories run right into one another with barely a break, and there are no concessions to aesthetic layout of the pages at all. In some intangible way, these factors mean that more effort is required to read. And finally... No illustrations whatsoever! Admittedly, these are a luxury item nowadays, and I would never dream of finding wonderful full colour plates as in times gone by, but not even so much as an outline drawing before each story? Come on! This should be a children's book! So if you're truly desperate to read one or more of the stories, this does just fit the bill, but for a decent reading experience I'd keep looking for another edition, such as the separately published coloured Fairy Books by Andrew Lang.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Oh for an index,
By Belinda (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 12 Books in 1: Andrew Lang's Complete "Fairy Book" Series. The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac Fairy Books. Traditional Folk Tales and Fairy Stories From Around The World. (Paperback)
This is a fantastic collection of stories from all over the world, its only failing - no index. With well over 300 stories finding the tale you want is a nightmare. As this is such an extensive resource I would have expected an index for each of the titles within each of the fairy book and in the back an index which included themes, characters, places, names, locations of origin etc.
Otherwise an excellent purchase.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Get them free on Kindle instead,
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This review is from: 12 Books in 1: Andrew Lang's Complete "Fairy Book" Series. The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac Fairy Books. Traditional Folk Tales and Fairy Stories From Around The World. (Paperback)
The format is really unconducive to reading with the stories crammed up, and as a previous review mentions this volume is like a yellow pages in weight and feel.
All the Andrew Lang books are available for free on Kindle, which I think would be a much better way to have them all in one place than this unwieldy volume
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