Lang's Fairy Books

*The Langs' Fairy Books*
	Rumpelstiltskin from The Blue Fairy Book, illustrated by Henry J. Ford.
	The Blue Fairy Book; The Red Fairy Book; The Blue Poetry Book; The Green Fairy Book; The True Story Book; The Yellow Fairy Book; The Red True Story Book; The Animal Story Book; The Pink Fairy Book; The Arabian Nights' Entertainments; The Red Book of Animal Stories; The Grey Fairy Book; The Violet Fairy Book; The Book of Romance; The Crimson Fairy Book; The Brown Fairy Book; The Red Romance Book; The Orange Fairy Book; The Olive Fairy Book; The Red Book of Heroes; The Lilac Fairy Book; The All Sorts of Stories Book; The Book of Saints and Heroes; The Strange Story Book
Author	Andrew Lang; Nora Lang
Illustrator	Henry J. Ford (and others)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Fairy tales
Published	1889–1913
No. of books	25

The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He initially edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run, while his wife, the translator and author Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851 – 10 July 1933), known to friends and family as Nora, assumed editorial control of the series in the 1890s.^[1] She and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories, as acknowledged in the prefaces. Four of the volumes from 1908 to 1912 were published by "Mrs. Lang".

According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write."^[2]

The 12 Coloured Fairy Books were illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, with credit for the first two volumes shared by G. P. Jacomb-Hood and Lancelot Speed, respectively.^[3] A. Wallis Mills also contributed some illustrations.

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Journal 新生歲月

2022年2月7日星期一