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THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK IBD

COSIMO CLASSICS
12 / 2006
9781596059948
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Sinopsis

A prolific collector of fairy tales from around the globe, Andrew Lang, in this Dover Edition (no original publisher named) work, sets down a wildly entertaining variety of 'stories as old as anything that men have invented.' These oldest of stories include:. 'The Finest Liar in the World'. 'The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars'. 'The Three Princes and Their Beasts'. 'The Child Who Came from an Egg'. 'The Enchanted Knife'. 'The History of Dwarf Long Nose'. 'The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy'. and many more.Complete with beautiful pen-and-ink illustrations, this is a collection to treasure, one in which you?ll find roots of many of the stories we continue to tell anew today.Scottish journalist and author ANDREW LANG (1844-1912), a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, produced a stunning variety and number of volumes, including books of poetry, novels, children?s books, histories, and biographies, as well as criticism, essays, scholarly works of anthropology, and translations of classical literature.__________________________________________ALSO FROM COSIMO: Lang?s The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, A Short History of Scotland, and Myth, Ritual & Religion

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