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The Yellow Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

First published: 1894
Pages: 284

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Dedication and Preface
5:59
The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership
6:39
The Six Swans
9:30
The Dragon of the North
27:12
Story of the Emperor's New Clothes
7:17
The Golden Crab
11:15
The Iron Stove
11:40
The Dragon and His Grandmother
7:45
The Donkey Cabbage
13:52
The Little Green Frog
23:15
The Seven-Headed Serpent
10:00
The Grateful Beasts
24:55
The Giants and the Herd-boy
7:08
The Invisible Prince
32:47
The Crow
6:25
How Six Men travelled through the Wide World
10:50
The Wizard King
17:52
The Nixy
10:49
The Glass Mountain
11:36
Alphege, or the Green Monkey
11:55
Fairer-than-a-Fairy
16:36
The Three Brothers
9:23
The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise
6:04
The Glass Axe
18:42
The Dead Wife
4:45
In the Land of Souls
7:59
The White Duck
12:24
The Witch and her Servants
40:08
The Magic Ring
31:56
The Flower Queen's Daughter
12:57
The Flying Ship
15:24
The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son
7:17
The Story of King Frost
7:20
The Death of the Sun-hero
6:40
The Witch
12:02
The Hazel-nut Child
5:28
The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus
24:46
Prince Ring
28:45
The Swineherd
9:36
How to tell a True Princess
2:44
The Blue Mountains
18:49
The Tinder-box
19:41
The Witch in the Stone Boat
14:35
Thumbelina
21:24
The Nightingale
16:51
Hermod and Hadvor
17:17
The Steadfast Tin-soldier
9:21
Blockhead Hans
9:07
A Story about a Darning-needle
6:48

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About this book

The fourth of Lang's colored anthologies casts a wider net than its predecessors, gathering tales from Russia, Iceland, Hungary, Germany, and even Native American tradition. Several of Hans Christian Andersen's stories appear here, including the emperor fooled by his invisible clothes and the nightingale whose song outshines a mechanical bird. Alongside them stand Norse legends, the tinderbox soldier, and Thumbelina no bigger than a thumb. As with the rest of the series, Lang selected and framed the stories while his wife Leonora and their collaborators handled much of the translation. First published in 1894, it shows the series reaching well beyond Europe. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available to download.

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.