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The Red Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang (Editor), Henry Justice Ford & Lancelot Speed

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenilePrimary source
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Description

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"The Red Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang is a fairy tale collection published in 1890. The second volume in Lang's renowned Coloured Fairy Books series, it brings together enchanting stories from French, Russian, Danish, and Romanian traditions, along with tales from Norse mythology. Edited by Andrew Lang with significant contributions from his wife Leonora Blanche Lang, this collection continued the series' mission to preserve traditional fairy tales for young readers during an era when such stories faced criticism for their fantastical nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “folklore”, and 3 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “fairy tale” in the description, “Fairy tales” in the description, “Mythology” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library

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Editions

Open Library reports 480 editions; 6 cataloged here.

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1890-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Longmans, Green, and Co.English—Public digitized item

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1898-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York, Grosset & DunlapEnglish—Public digitized item

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Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Contributors: Lang, Mrs
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Illustrators: Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice); Speed, Lancelot
  • Open Library reports 480 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Scanner: iala2
  • Scanner: rich1
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1088858W
Edition coverage
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