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try to search here: http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Lang/

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The Fairy books: The Blue Fairy Book [1889] The Red Fairy Book [1890] The Green Fairy Book [1892] The Yellow Fairy Book [1894] The Pink Fairy Book [1897] The Grey Fairy Book [1900] The Violet Fairy Book [1901] The Crimson Fairy Book [1903] The Brown Fairy Book [1904] The Orange Fairy Book [1906] The Olive Fairy Book [1907] The Lilac Fairy Book [1910] They can all be read online or downloaded from here: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lang/andrew/ You need to scroll down to the bottom of the page, to find them, is all.

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That really depends on your personal taste. It is considered a classic of it's kind, so obviously a lot of people think or have thought so. It's available for free online reading or download here: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lang/andrew/ (Scroll down to the bottom of the page) so you can read it and see what you think. :) There's nothing wrong if you don't like it, just means that it's not your taste. Everyone's different. Cheers!

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Andrew Lang 1844-1912 Nationality: Scottish Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. New Entry : 02/10/2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS Awards Career Further Readings Media Adaptations Personal Information Sidelights Source Citation Writings "Sidelights" Andrew Lang was a distinguished literary figure who enjoyed particular prominence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when he published extensively on topics ranging from folklore to philosophy for a readership ranging from scholars to children. Lang was born in 1844 in Scotland, and in his youth he was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, where he became enthralled with the works of European and American writers, including Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In his youth Lang also developed a lifelong predilection for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Later, at St. Andrews University, Lang commenced his own literary endeavors by cofounding St. Leonard's Magazine, which was devoted to the arts. In 1864, three years after entering St. Andrews, Lang transferred to the University of Glasgow, where he distinguished himself as a promising scholar. In 1865 he won a scholarship to Oxford University, and three years later he received an open fellowship to Merton College. An impressive academic career appeared inevitable, but in 1872 Lang was compelled by a lung infection to halt his studies and recuperate in France for two winters. When he finally returned to Oxford, Lang was no longer interested in continuing his work in academia. In 1875, soon after leaving Oxford, he married and moved to London, where he determined to work as a journalist. The prolific Lang readily found publication in both the London Daily News and the weekly Saturday Review. Soon American magazines were also printing his work, as were other prominent British weeklies, including Spectator. And when the Longmans publishing firm began producing its own magazine in 1882, Lang contributed the column "At the Sign of the Ship," which would continue until the publication's demise in 1905. In his various writings Lang proved himself an engaging thinker with a wide-ranging knowledge and a keen sense of wit. His essays and newspaper pieces were recognized as incisive and sardonic, appealing to both the uneducated and the academically inclined. As Roger W. Calkins noted in his profile of Lang in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "Lang's popularity suggests that his temperament and style were perfectly in tune with the widest audience of his age." Lang's literary essays also showed him to have remained true to the same writers and genres--fairy tales, adventure--that had so engaged him in his youth. Among those who received Lang's favor were Robert Louis Stevenson, author of such classics as Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and H. Ridger Haggard, whose works include the adventure stories She and King Solomon's Mines. But some of the era's more distinguished writers--including Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, and Joseph Conrad--were less well received by Lang, and thus he is perceived today as an ultimately conservative critic. By the mid-1880s Lang was also proving himself prolific and versatile as a writer of books. He had produced a collection of poetry in 1872, Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, and in the ensuing years he continued to create rhymed, metrically proper verse modeled after the French ballad. Calkins praised Ballads and Lyrics of Old France on these counts, noting that the poems "succeed through Lang's thorough knowledge of the French language and his delicate ear for intricate rhythms and meter." Then, in 1882, Lang wrote the epic Helen of Troy, which he considered his first major poetic work. This nostalgic piece failed to realize the accolades that Lang had anticipated and, perhaps as a reaction to that lack of acclaim, he never again attempted such ambitious verse. Calkins suggested that the epic suffered from Lang's wistful tone at the expense of the sensual elements of the legend. Lang's subsequent collections are judged to comprise conservative, somewhat unsubstantial poems which are consistently appealing without being particularly engaging. Lang also produced several volumes of translation. Notable here is his collaboration with S. H. Butcher on an English-language rendering of Homer's Odyssey. This volume was long prized as the most distinguished English translation of Homer's epic. Lang independently translated other works by Greek authors such as Theocritus and Bion, then teamed with Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers on an English-language version of Homer's other epic, The Iliad. In addition, Lang translated The Homeric Hymns and produced such studies as Homer and the Epic and The World of Homer. Among the more significant publications in Lang's body of work are his numerous collections of fairy tales. According to Calkins, it is these writings that will likely "outlast [Lang's] more serious productions." Notable here are twelve volumes he compiled with such titles as The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, and The Green Fairy Book. The Blue Fairy Book consists of a variety of popular European tales, including those about such beloved characters as Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, and Snow White. By virtue of its representation of so many classic stories, The Blue Fairy Book is often considered a masterpiece in itself. For subsequent volumes Lang drew on his interest in folklore and collected tales from around the world, including less familiar ones from Native American tribes, Africa, China, Japan, Iceland, Australia, and India. Lang's collections proved to be phenomenally popular and generated a new interest in fairy tales in Victorian England. Lang also published many volumes of nonfiction, including biographies and travel writings. Of particular distinction in these categories are Pickle the Spy, with which he offended his fellow Scots by affirming that the son of a Scottish nobleman had once spied for the British; and John Knox and the Reformation, where Lang characterized the Scottish religious leader as a manipulating egotist responsible for widespread repression in Scotland. Among Lang's other biographies are the literary profiles Alfred Tennyson and Sir Walter Scott. Lang also published The Maid of France, a biography of Joan of Arc in which he rationalized the religious figure's visions as occult and psychic phenomena. Lang wrote the book as a counterpoint to Anatole France's version of the saint's life. The American author Henry James wrote in a letter to Edmund Gosse that despite the book's "accomplishment, all the possession of detail, the sense of reality, the vision of the truths and processes of life, the light of experience and the finer sense of history," he still preferred the wisdom of France's version. In the preface to his Saint Joan; A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, the playwright (George) Bernard Shaw commented, "Andrew Lang and Mark Twain are equally determined to make Joan a beautiful and most ladylike Victorian; but both of them recognize and insist on her capacity for leadership, though the Scots scholar is less romantic about it than the Mississippi pilot." Although, as Calkins noted, "he mastered many types of writing and excelled in them," Lang is best known as the editor of The Blue Fairy Book and the subsequent volumes in the Fairy Book series, collections that are recognized as rich contributions to children's literature. Roger Sale of Washington Post Book World attributed the success of Lang's series to "some alchemy of editorial genius and public taste," and added, "When I have used The Blue Fairy Book to teach fairy tales, the only students who protest are those who prefer a different Lang book." In Essays Presented to Charles Williams, J. R. R Tolkien wrote, "Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are . . . like stalls in a rummage-sale. Someone with a duster and a fair eye for things that retain some value has been round the attics and box-rooms." PERSONAL INFORMATION Family: Born March 31, 1844, in Selkirk, Scotland; died of angina pectoris, July 20, 1912, in Banchory, Aberdeen, Scotland; son of John (a county sheriff-clerk) and Jane Plenderleath (Sellar) Lang; married Lenora Blanche Alleyne (a writer), 1875. Education: Attended St. Andrews University, 1861-63, University of Glasgow, 1863-64, and Loretto School, Musselburgh, 1864; Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. (with honors), 1866. Memberships: Royal British Academy (fellow), Society for Psychical Research (founder; president, 1911), Athenaeum Club. AWARDS Open fellowship to Merton College, 1868; LL.D., St. Andrews University, 1888, and Oxford University, 1904. CAREER Writer. Merton College, Oxford, England, fellow, 1868-75; worked as a journalist beginning in 1875. Gifford Lecturer at St. Andrews University, 1888; Ford Lecturer at Oxford University, 1904. Cofounder of St. Leonard's Magazine. WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: FICTION The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairy Land, illustrated by Richard Doyle, Longmans, Green, 1884. (Under pseudonym A. Hugh Longway) Much Darker Days, Longmans, Green, 1884. (With May Kendall) That Very Mab, Longmans, Green, 1885. In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories, Kegan Paul, 1886. The Mark of Cain, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1888. The Gold of Fairnilee, illustrated by E. A. Lemann, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1888, expanded edition, Gollancz, 1967. Prince Prigio (also see below), illustrated by Gordon F. Browne, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889. Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody, Longmans, Green, 1890. (With H. Rider Haggard) The World's Desire, Longmans, Green, 1890. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (also see below), illustrated by Browne, Longmans, Green, 1893. My Own Fairy Book, illustrated by Browne and others, Longmans, Green, 1895. A Monk of Fife: A Romance of the Days of Jeanne d'Arc, Longmans, Green, 1895. (With Alfred Edward Woodley Mason) Parson Kelly, Longmans, Green, 1900. The Disentanglers, Longmans, Green, 1901. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia [and] Prince Prigio, Dutton, 1961. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Viking Press, 1981. The Flying Ship, Morrow, 1995. Also author of Twelve Dancing Princesses, 1966, 1980. POETRY Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with Other Poems, Longmans, Green, 1872. XXII Ballades in Blue China, Kegan Paul, 1880. XXII and X: XXXII Ballades in Blue China, Kegan Paul, 1881. Helen of Troy, G. Bell, 1882. Ballades and Verses Vain, Scribner, 1884. Rhymes a la Mode, Kegan Paul, 1885. Grass of Parnassus: Rhymes Old and New, Longmans, Green, 1888. Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes, Longmans, Green, 1894. New Collected Poems, Longmans, Green, 1905. CRITICISM AND ESSAYS The Library, [London], 1876. Letters on Literature, Longmans, Green, 1880. Letters to Dead Authors, Scribner, 1886. Books and Bookmen, G. I. Coombes, 1886. Lost Leaders, Longmans, Green, 1889. How to Fail in Literature, Field & Tuer, 1890. Essays in Little, Henry & Co., 1891. Homer and the Epic, Longmans, Green, 1893. Adventures among Books, Longmans, Green, 1905. The Puzzle of Dickens' Last Plot, Chapman & Hall, 1905. Homer and His Age, Longmans, Green, 1906. La Jeanne d'Arc de M. Anatole France, [Paris], 1909. The World of Homer, Longmans, Green, 1910. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy, Longmans, Green, 1910. History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne, Longmans, Green, 1912. Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown, Longmans, Green, 1912. BIOGRAPHY Life, Letters, and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, W. Blackwood, 1890. The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, Scribner, 1897. Prince Charles Edward, Goupil, 1900. Alfred Tennyson, Dodd, 1901. John Knox and the Reformation, Longmans, Green, 1905. Sir Walter Scott, Scribner, 1906. The Story of Joan of Arc (for children), Dutton, 1906. The Maid of France, Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc, Longmans, Green, 1908. Sir George Mackenzie: King's Advocate of Rosehaugh, Longmans, Green, 1909. OTHER NONFICTION Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes, Seeley Service, 1882. Custom and Myth, Longmans, Green, 1884, revised edition, 1885. Myth, Ritual, and Religion, two volumes, Longmans, Green, 1887. (With William Ernest Henley) Pictures at Play; or, Dialogues of the Galleries, illustrated by Harris Furniss, Longmans, Green, 1888. Angling Sketches, illustrated by William G. Burn-Murdoch, Longmans, Green, 1891. St. Andrews, illustrated by T. Hodge, Longmans, Green, 1893. Cock Lane and Common-Sense, Longmans, Green, 1894. Pickle the Spy; or, The Incognito of Prince Charles, Longmans, Green, 1897. Modern Mythology, Longmans, Green, 1897. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, Longmans, Green, 1897. The Companions of Pickle, Longmans, Green, 1898. The Making of Religion, Longmans, Green, 1898. A History of Scotland, four volumes, W. Blackwood, 1900-07. The Mystery of Mary Stuart, Longmans, Green, 1901. Magic and Religion, Longmans, Green, 1901. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery, Longmans, Green, 1902. The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies, Longmans, Green, 1903. Social Origins, Longmans, Green, 1903. Historical Mysteries, Smith, Elder, 1904. The Secret of the Totem, Longmans, Green, 1905. The Clyde Mystery: A Study in Forgeries and Folklore, J. MacLehose, 1905. Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart, J. MacLehose, 1906. A Short History of Scotland, W. Blackwood, 1911. (With John Lang) Highways and Byways in the Border, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Macmillan, 1912. Author of column "At the Sign of the Ship" for Longmans (magazine), 1882-1905. Contributor to periodicals, including London Daily News, Saturday Review, and Spectator. EDITOR English Worthies, nine volumes, Longmans, Green, 1885-87. Ballads of Books, Longmans, Green, 1888. Charles Perrault, Perrault's Popular Tales, Clarendon Press, 1888. The Blue Fairy Book, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and George Percy Jacombe-Hood, Longmans, Green, 1889. The Red Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford and Lancelot Speed, Longmans, Green, 1890. The Blue Poetry Book, illustrated by Ford and Speed, Longmans, Green, 1891. The Green Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1892. The True Story Book, illustrated by L. Bogle and others, Longmans, Green, 1893. The Yellow Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1894. The Red True Story Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1895. Sir Walter Scott, Poetical Works, A. & C. Black, 1895. The Animal Story Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1896. The Blue True Story Book, illustrated by Ford and others, Longmans, Green, 1896. The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, Methuen, 1896. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, Dent, 1896. A Collection of Ballads, Chapman & Hall, 1897. The Pink Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1897. The Nursery Rhyme Book, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, Warne, 1897. The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Longmans, Green, 1898. The Red Book of Animal Stories, Longmans, Green, 1899. The Grey Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1900. The Violet Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1901. The Book of Romance, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1902. The Crimson Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1903. The Brown Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1904. The Red Romance Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1905. The Orange Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1906. The Olive Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1907. Poets Country, illustrated by Francis S. Walker, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1907. Tales of a Fairy Court, illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon, Collins, 1907. Tales of Troy and Greece, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1907. Jean Ingelow, Poems, Longmans, Green, 1908. Lenora B. Lang, The Book of Princes and Princesses, Longmans, Green, 1908. L. B. Lang, The Red Book of Heroes, Longmans, Green, 1909. The Lilac Fairy Book, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1910. All Sorts of Stories, Longmans, Green, 1911. L. B. Lang, The Book of Saints, illustrated by Ford, Longmans, Green, 1912. James Annesley, The Annesley Case, W. Hodge, 1913. L. B. Lang, The Strange Story Book, Longmans, Green, 1913. J. B. Poquelin de Moliere, Les Precieuses ridicules, second edition, Clarendon Press, 1926. King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table, Acme Books, 1968. The Rainbow Fairy Book: A Selection of Outstanding Fairy Tales from The Color Fairy Books, Morrow, 1993. A World of Fairy Tales, Dial Press, 1994. Tales from King Arthur, NTC/Contemporary Publishing, 1998. Also editor of The Story of Robin Hood and Other Tales of Adventure and Battle, 1968. Works reprinted in various editions, including many featuring the illustrations of other artists. Works also published in abridged versions, and tales from various volumes also published independently, sometimes with illustrations of other artists. TRANSLATOR (With Samuel Henry Butcher) Homer, The Odyssey, Macmillan, 1879. Theocritus, Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, Macmillan, 1880. (With Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers) Homer, The Iliad of Homer, Macmillan, 1883. Aucassin and Nicolette, David Nutt, 1887, new edition published as The Song-Story of Aucassin and Nicolette, illustrated by Fritz Kredel, Gravesend Press, 1957. Charles Deulin, Johnny Nut and the Golden Geese, Longmans, Green, 1887. (With Paul Sylvester) The Dead Leman and Other Tales from the French, second edition, Swan, Sonnenschein, 1889. The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois, Way & Williams, 1897. Homer, The Homeric Hymns, G. Allen, 1899. CONTRIBUTOR Allan G. Steel, editor, Cricket, Longmans, Green, 1890. Horace G. Hutchinson, editor, Famous Golf Links, Longmans, Green, 1891. R. Barclay, editor, A Batch of Golfing Papers, Simpkin, Marshall, 1892. Hedley Peck, editor, The Poetry of Sports, Longmans, Green, 1896. Peter H. Brown, editor, The Union of 1707: A Survey of Events, G. Outram, 1907. MEDIA ADAPTATIONS Recordings adapted from Lang's works include "Snow-White and Rose-Red," read by Glynis Johns, music by Dick Hyman, Caedmon Records, 1973; "Princess Rosette," Spoken Arts, 1974; "Little Wildrose, and Other Andrew Lang Fairy Tales," read by Cathleen Nesbitt, Caedmon Records, 1974; "Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories," 1986; "Jason and the Golden Fleece" and "Travels of Ulysses," both 1992; and "Beauty and the Beast and Other Stories," 1993. FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BOOKS Demoor, Marysa, The Art of Biography: An Analysis of Two Contrasting Views, Studia Germanica Gandensia (Gent), 1986. Demoor, Marysa, Friends Over the Ocean: Andrew Lang's American Correspondence, 1881-1912, Rijksuniverstiteit Gent, 1989. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale, Volume 98: Modern British Essayists, First Series, 1990, Volume 141: British Children's Writers, 1880-1914, 1994. Essays Presented to Charles Williams, Oxford University Press, 1947. Falconer, C. M., The Writings of Andrew Lang, M.A., LL.D., Norwood Editions (Norwood, PA), 1976. Green, Roger Lancelyn, Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography, Edmund Ward, 1946. Lang, Lockhart, and Biography, Norwood Editions, 1978. Langstaff, Eleanor De Selms, Andrew Lang, Twayne Publishers (Boston, MA),1978. The Letters of Henry James, Volume II, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Ormerod, James, The Poetry of Andrew Lang, R. West (Philadelphia), 1978. Reference Guide to English Literature, 2nd edition, St. James Press, 1991. Shaw, George Bernard, Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, Brentano's, 1926. Something about the Author, Volume 16, Gale, 1979. St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, St. James Press, 1996. Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, 4th edition, St. James Press, 1995. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 16, Gale, 1985. PERIODICALS New Statesman, November 7, 1975, p. 586; November 5, 1976, p. 645. New York Review of Books, December 21, 1967, p. 20; December 17, 1970, p. 43. New York Times Book Review, February 13, 1972, p. 8. Observer, August 14, 1966, p. 16. Times Literary Supplement, April 2, 1976, p. 396; July 7, 1978, p. 768; July 23, 1982, p. 795. Washington Post Book World, December 2, 1979, p. 4; January 11, 1981, p. 7; August 5, 1990, p. 15.*

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This is all I found Go to www.wikipedia.org.com In the search box type in 1910 fairytales and myths collection and a list of poems etc from 1910 - 1915. Pick what you want