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Roumania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Perhaps the best English versions available of these classic stories... Read Full Overview

Title: The Violet Fairy Book Binding: Paperback Author: AndrewLang Publisher: DoverPublications

Volume 7 of Andrew Lang's classic Fairy Books Series (also known as the Fairy Books of Many Colors series), collecting treasured and beloved stories from around the world. This volume features the following tales:A Tale Of The Tontlawald, The Finest Liar In The World, The Story... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1901, The Violet Fairy Book is a compilation of international fables from various locales including Japan, Romania, Portugal, Lithuania, Serbia and Africa. Andrew Lang delivers a comprehensive collection of some of the most beloved tales... Read Full Overview

The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1901, The Violet Fairy Book is a compilation of international fables from various locales including Japan, Romania, Portugal, Lithuania, Serbia and Africa. Andrew Lang delivers a comprehensive collection of some of the most beloved tales... Read Full Overview

This is a new collection of Fairy stories in continuation of the series which "The Blue Fairy Book" was the initial volume.

Romania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests... Read Full Overview

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Roumania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Perhaps the best English versions available of these classic stories... Read Full Overview

'The Violet Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford' forms part of Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books series -- a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own colour, and all in all, 437 tales from a wide... Read Full Overview

Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: A Tale of the Tontlawald -- Schippeitaro -- The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan -- The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples -- The Lute Player -- The Grateful Prince -- The Child who came from an Egg -- Stan Bolovan --... Read Full Overview

One night a peasant who was returning home from a feast wandered a littlefarther into the Tontlawald, and came back with the same story. A countlessnumber of women and children were gathered round a huge fire, and some wereseated on the ground, while others danced strange dances... Read Full Overview

This is a new collection of Fairy stories in continuation of the series which "The Blue Fairy Book" was the initial volume.The Violet Fairy Book is packed with stories (35 of them) from many countries and most continents, stirring illustrations by H. J. Ford, and a captivating... Read Full Overview