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Andrew Lang
1844–1912
Best known for gathering classic fairy tales into the beloved color fairy books, this Scottish writer moved easily between folklore, poetry, criticism, and translation. His work helped bring old stories from many traditions to generations of new readers.
83 Audiobooks
Custom and Myth
by Andrew Lang
Books and Bookmen
by Andrew Lang
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
by Andrew Lang
Prince Prigio
by Andrew Lang
Tales of Troy and Greece
by Andrew Lang
The Brown Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Pink Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Violet Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
A Short History of Scotland
by Andrew Lang
The Yellow Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
by Andrew Lang
The Library
by Andrew Lang
Letters to Dead Authors
by Andrew Lang
Angling Sketches
by Andrew Lang
The World's Desire
by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard, Andrew Lang
Lost Leaders
by Andrew Lang
Oxford
by Andrew Lang
Modern Mythology
by Andrew Lang
Letters on Literature
by Andrew Lang
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
by Andrew Lang
In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories
by Andrew Lang
The Disentanglers
by Andrew Lang
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
by Andrew Lang
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Andrew Lang
The Gold Of Fairnilee
by Andrew Lang
The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
by Andrew Lang
Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody
by Andrew Lang
How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture
by Andrew Lang
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
by Andrew Lang
The Crimson Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Adventures Among Books
by Andrew Lang
Letters to Dead Authors
by Andrew Lang
Homer and His Age
by Andrew Lang
A Collection of Ballads
by Andrew Lang
Helen of Troy
by Andrew Lang
Introduction to the Compleat Angler
by Andrew Lang
The Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Essays in Little
by Andrew Lang
Alfred Tennyson
by Andrew Lang
He
by Andrew Lang, Walter Herries Pollock
The Brown Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The companions of Pickle Being a sequel to 'Pickle the spy'
by Andrew Lang
Custom and Myth New Edition
by Andrew Lang
Grass of Parnassus
by Andrew Lang
The Lilac Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Andrew Lang
Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford
by Sir Arthur Evans, W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler, F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Sir John Linton Myres
Much Darker Days
by Andrew Lang
The World of Homer
by Andrew Lang
The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
by Andrew Lang
New Collected Rhymes
by Andrew Lang
Rhymes a la Mode
by Andrew Lang
John Knox and the Reformation
by Andrew Lang
The Lilac Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Mystery of Mary Stuart
by Andrew Lang
'That Very Mab'
by May Kendall, Andrew Lang
The Making of Religion
by Andrew Lang
Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
by Andrew Lang
Historical Mysteries
by Andrew Lang
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities
by Andrew Lang
The Secret of the Totem
by Andrew Lang
Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
by Andrew Lang
Parson Kelly
by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason, Andrew Lang
The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland
by Andrew Lang
The Mark of Cain
by Andrew Lang
Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book"
by Andrew Lang
The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang A Project Gutenberg Linked Index to All Stories in the 12 Volumes
by Andrew Lang
Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated
by Andrew Lang, John Lang
Magic and Religion
by Andrew Lang
The Orange Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Social Origins and Primal Law
by Andrew Lang, J. J. (James Jasper) Atkinson
The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies
by Andrew Lang
Sir Walter Scott
by Andrew Lang
Method in the Study of Totemism
by Andrew Lang
Ballades and Verses Vain
by Andrew Lang
The Story of Joan of Arc
by Andrew Lang
History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne
by Andrew Lang
James VI and the Gowrie Mystery
by Andrew Lang
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XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885]
by Andrew Lang
About the author
Born in Selkirk, Scotland, on March 31, 1844, he was educated at St Andrews, Glasgow, and Balliol College, Oxford. He later became a fellow of Merton College before building a wide-ranging literary career in London as a journalist, critic, poet, translator, and scholar.
He is remembered most warmly for collecting and retelling folk and fairy tales, especially in the famous series of color fairy books such as The Blue Fairy Book. He also translated Homer and wrote on mythology, folklore, and anthropology, showing a gift for making learned subjects lively and readable for general audiences.
His writing life was remarkably prolific, crossing from children's literature to classical studies and literary criticism with ease. He died on July 20, 1912, but his fairy books and retellings have kept his name familiar to readers for well over a century.