The Brown Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

• Publisher: Pook Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781528782326
• Print ISBN:
  9781447418054
• Subtopic: Classics

The Brown Fairy Book contains 32 stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen and African Kaffirs, and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India. This charming early work, first published in 1904, is the ninth book in a series of twelve 'coloured' fairy books by Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book – By Andrew Lang with Illustrations by H. J. Ford contains many traditional fairy tales such as 'Father Grumbler', 'The Cunning Hare', 'The Wicked Wolverine', 'The Elf Maiden', 'The Enchanted Head', 'Kisa the Cat', 'Which was the Foolishest?', 'The Sister of the Sun' and many more. Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist and literary critic, with a passion for folkloric story telling. Most of his volumes (including this, 'The Brown Fairy Book') were beautifully illustrated by Henry J. Ford (1860 – 1941), an inordinately talented artist who came to public attention with his illustrations for Lang. The books captured the imagination of British children, and later became worldwide bestsellers in the 1880s and 1890s. This Brown Fairy Book 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 array of cultures and countries are presented.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• The Golden Age of Illustration
• Andrew Lang
• H. J. Ford
• Title
• Dedication
• Preface
• Contents
• Illustrations
• What the Rose did to the Cypress
• Ball-Carrier and the Bad One
• How Ball-Carrier finished his Task
• The Bunyip
• Father Grumbler
• The Story of the Yara
• The Cunning Hare
• The Turtle and his Bride
• How Geirald the Coward was Punished
• Hábogi
• How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers
• The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé
• The Wicked Wolverine
• The Husband of the Rat’s Daughter
• The Mermaid and the Boy
• Pivi and Kabo
• The Elf Maiden
• How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones
• Fortune and the Wood-Cutter
• The Enchanted Head
• The Sister of the Sun
• The Prince and the Three Fates
• The Fox and the Lapp
• Kisa the Cat
• The Lion and the Cat
• Which was the Foolishest?
• Asmund and Signy
• Rübezahl
• Story of the King who would be Stronger than Fate
• Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-hearted
• Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey
• The Knights of the Fish