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The Blue Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

First published
1889
Pages
347
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Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014), Scott Mather, Christie Nowak and others · 13 h 38 min · 37 parts

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  1. The Bronze Ring

    20:58

  2. Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess

    18:41

  3. East of the Sun and West of the Moon

    32:05

  4. The Yellow Dwarf

    49:42

  5. Little Red Riding Hood

    3:57

  6. The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

    21:24

  7. Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper

    19:30

  8. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

    33:13

  9. The Tale of a Youth who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was

    19:35

  10. Rumpelstiltkin

    7:55

  11. Beauty and the Beast

    51:21

  12. The Master-Maid

    41:10

  13. Why the Sea is Salt

    10:55

  14. The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots

    8:52

  15. Felicia and the Pot Pinks

    19:33

  16. The White Cat

    38:15

  17. The Water-Lily. The Gold Spinners

    15:29

  18. The Terrible Head

    22:30

  19. The Story of Pretty Goldilocks

    0:29

  20. The History of Whittington

    17:09

  21. The Wonderful Sheep

    29:07

  22. Little Thumb

    22:33

  23. The Forty Thieves

    18:25

  24. Hansel and Gretel

    18:50

  25. Snow White and Rose Red

    12:24

  26. The Goose-Girl

    12:03

  27. Toads and Diamonds

    5:25

  28. Prince Darling

    22:28

  29. Blue Beard

    9:59

  30. Trusty John

    22:59

  31. The Brave Little Tailor

    24:47

  32. A Voyage to Lilliput

    41:35

  33. The Princess on the Glass Hill

    20:52

  34. The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou

    69:13

  35. The History of Jack the Giant Killer

    9:45

  36. The Black Bull of Norroway

    12:17

  37. The Red Etin

    13:29

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The first volume in Andrew Lang's celebrated series of coloured Fairy Books, this 1889 collection gathered dozens of tales that many English readers would meet here for the first time. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretel, and Jack the Giant-Killer sit side by side, drawn from Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, the Arabian Nights, and Norse legend. Lang and his team of translators, chiefly his wife Leonora, retold each story in clear, unfussy prose meant to be read aloud. The book helped spark a lasting revival of the fairy tale and shaped children's reading for generations that followed. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book of 1889 did well enough for Longmans, Green to keep the series running for a quarter of a century, and Andrew Lang put his name to twenty-five volumes, The Yellow Fairy Book among them in 1894. Much of the labour was his wife's.

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Book facts

First published
1889
Reading time
About 10 hours
Pages
347
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014), Scott Mather, Christie Nowak and others