THE ATHENAEUMThe Red Fairy BookAndrew Lang
Fairy Tale
The Red Fairy Book
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textAndrew Lang, a Scottish scholar who wrote on Homer, myth and the folklore of every country, edited The Blue Fairy Book in 1889, and this, the second, followed in 1890. Most of the translating and retelling was done by his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne, and a band of helpers whose names he printed in his prefaces. H. J. Ford’s drawings are in every one of the twelve coloured books.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 8 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Deep Wood
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #540. In the public domain in the United States.