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The Yellow Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang (Editor), Leonora Blanche Lang & Henry Justice Ford (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, English, Esperanto, German, Persian, Spanish, SWA, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenileManuscriptPrimary source
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"The Yellow Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang is a collection of fairy tales edited for children, written during the late 19th century. This work compiles various enchanting stories from different cultures, all imbued with magical themes and moral lessons that are typical of fairy tales. The tales range from whimsical adventures to cautionary tales involving royalty, magical creatures, and the consequences of one’s actions. The beginning of the book introduces the collection with a dedication and a preface that addresses the whimsical nature of fairy tales and their importance in a child’s literary development. It outlines the diverse origins of the stories included, hinting at their cultural richness—from Russian and German folklore to tales by famous authors such as Hans Christian Andersen. The opening anecdotes, such as "The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership," showcase clever animals and the moral lessons learned from their interactions, setting the stage for a series of whimsical narratives filled with adventure and imagination that follow throughout the book. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”. Retained metadata contains “Fairies” in the subject metadata.

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

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

    • “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg

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Editions

Open Library reports 458 editions; 5 cataloged here.

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1894-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon, New York, [etc.] : Longmans, Green, and co.English—Public digitized item

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1899-01-01T00:00:00Z[New York] Gosset & DunlapEnglish—Public digitized item

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1966Dover Publications; London ; New York : Longmans, GreenEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • 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.
  • Open Library reports 458 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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