The Violet Fairy Book

A prolific collector of fairy tales from around the globe, Andrew Lang, in this Dover Edition (no original publisher named) work, sets down a wildly entertaining variety of "stories as old as anything that men have invented."

These oldest of stories include:
. "The Finest Liar in the World"
. "The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars"
. "The Three Princes and Their Beasts"
. "The Child Who Came from an Egg"
. "The Enchanted Knife"
. "The History of Dwarf Long Nose"
. "The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy"
. and many more.

Complete with beautiful pen-and-ink illustrations, this is a collection to treasure, one in which you'll find roots of many of the stories we continue to tell anew today.

Scottish journalist and author ANDREW LANG (1844-1912), a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, produced a stunning variety and number of volumes, including books of poetry, novels, children's books, histories, and biographies, as well as criticism, essays, scholarly works of anthropology, and translations of classical literature.
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ALSO FROM COSIMO:
Lang's The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts,
A Short History of Scotland, and Myth, Ritual & Religion