The Orange Fairy Book International Wonder Tales of Quests, Enchantments, Animal Helpers, and Transformations
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
1 - 3 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
25.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
196
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.3 cm
Gewicht
429 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-3694-3
The Orange Fairy Book gathers a wide-ranging treasury of wonder tales-quests, enchantments, animal helpers, cruel tests, and supernatural transformations-drawn from European, African, Asian, and Indigenous oral traditions. First published in 1906 as part of Lang's celebrated colour fairy-book series, it presents folklore in lucid Victorian prose, balancing narrative economy with romance and marvel. Its literary context is the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement to collect, translate, and domesticate traditional tales for young readers, often with H. J. Ford's illustrations reinforcing their imaginative atmosphere. Andrew Lang was a Scottish man of letters, classicist, folklorist, poet, and critic whose intellectual range shaped the project. Though many tales were translated or adapted by collaborators, including his wife Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang, his editorial vision brought comparative folklore into the nursery. His interest in myth, anthropology, and oral tradition helps explain the book's breadth and its fascination with recurring motifs across cultures. This volume is recommended to readers who value fairy tales not merely as children's entertainment but as literary artifacts of cultural memory. It offers pleasure, strangeness, and historical insight in equal measure.
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