The Olive Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

Pages: 199

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00 - Preface
7:27
01 - Madschun
15:05
02 - The Blue Parrot
32:51
03 - Geirlaug the King’s Daughter
26:09
04 - The Story of Little King Loc
37:09
05 - ‘A Long-bow Story’
8:12
06 - Jackal or Tiger?
21:47
07 - The Comb and the Collar
27:15
08 - The Thanksgiving of the Wazir
8:12
09 - Samba the Coward
14:20
10 - Kupti and Imani
23:02
11 - The Strange Adventures of Little Maia
20:23
12 - Diamond cut Diamond
20:10
13 - The Green Knight
20:47
14 - The Five Wise Words of the Guru
16:13
15 - The Golden-headed Fish
13:12
16 - Dorani
15:22
17 - The Satin Surgeon
23:25
18 - The Billy Goat and the King
6:21
19 - The Story of Zoulvisia
28:07
20 - Grasp all, Lose all
16:02
21 - The Fate of the Turtle
10:21
22 - The Snake Prince
14:12
23 - The Prince and Princess in the Forest
31:29
24 - The Clever Weaver
5:33
25 - The Boy who found Fear at last
16:41
26 - He Wins who Waits
20:36
27 - The Steel Cane
6:23
28 - The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana
26:05
29 - The Silent Princess
33:50

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About this book

Andrew Lang gathered these twenty-nine stories in 1907 from far beyond the usual European nursery. The collection opens with Madschun, a tale from the Turks supplied by Dr. Ignaz Künos, and goes on to stories collected in India by Major Campbell, Armenian tales from Monsieur Macler, a Danish story called The Green Knight and a tale Mrs. Lang adapted from Anatole France. Most of the book was translated and retold for young readers by Mrs. Lang.

Readers meet a blue parrot, a snake prince, a silent princess, a boy who at last finds fear, and Ram Singh, a young servant sent down a haunted well for water while he remembers the counsel of an old guru. H. J. Ford's drawings and eight coloured plates illustrated the first edition.

Lang's preface is a pleasure of its own: a short, witty history of fairy tales from Perrault and Madame d'Aulnoy to the Grimms, and a plea that children be allowed to choose their own books.

About the author

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.