These are not your children's fairy tales. Some you will have heard of before, some will undoubtedly be new. Many are gruesome, misogynistic, and violent. Andrew Lang, the editor, collected these 37 stories together in 1889 into the first of his many collections of fairy tales. Each story has several illustrations, and this Eltanin Publishing edition has ALL of the original illustrations, meticulously formatted to look beautiful and large on your ereader; we are confident it is the best version available for ereaders. So, gather your courage, leave your preconceived notions of fairytales behind, and dive in to this wonderful collection.

Lang's urge to gather and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the Anglo-Scottish border. English fairy tale collections were rare at the time; Dinah Craik's The Fairy Book (1869) was a lonely precedent. According to Roger Lancelyn Green, Lang "was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day" who judged the traditional tales' "unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age". Over a generation, Lang's books worked a revolution in this public perception. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang's_Fairy_Books)

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