The Crimson Fairy Book Andrew Lang (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542311090)

Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing. A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, just as a distinguished man of science is only the Editor, not the Author of Nature. Like nature, popular tales are too vast to be the creation of a single modern mind. The Editor's business is to hunt for collections of these stories told by peasant or savage grandmothers in many climes, from New Caledonia to Zululand; from the frozen snows of the Polar regions to Greece, or Spain, or Italy, or far Lochaber. When the tales are found they are adapted to the needs of British children by various hands, the Editor doing little beyond guarding the interests of propriety, and toning down to mild reproofs the tortures inflicted on wicked stepmothers, and other naughty characters.

Author: Paula Benitez, Andrew Lang
ISBN-10: 1542311098
ISBN-13: 9781542311090
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2017
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d