This edition of Lang’s classic is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham Mc Donald, originaly designed for this book. Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books also known as Andrew Lang’s "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books of Many Colors are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally with the notable exception of Madame d’Aulnoy made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. 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…
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