King Frost and Other Fairy Tales

Name: King Frost and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Andrew Lang
ISBN: 9781910343760

Author: Andrew Lang
Series: Children's Classics
Language: English
Length: 256 pages
ISBN: 9781910343760
Published: 15 July 2014
Imprint: Sovereign

King Frost
fairy tale
children
magic
bedtime
stories
folklore
fairies
family
society

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Description

There was once upon a time a peasant-woman who had a daughter and a step-daughter. The daughter had her own way in everything, and whatever she did was right in her mother’s eyes; but the poor step-daughter had a hard time. Let her do what she would, she was always blamed, and got small thanks for all the trouble she took; nothing was right, everything wrong; and yet, if the truth were known, the girl was worth her weight in gold...

Author

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was one of Victorian Britain's most versatile men of letters — poet, novelist, critic, historian, and pioneering folklorist who treated fairy tales as serious cultural evidence. The twelve coloured fairy books made him famous, but they were only part of a career that ranged from Homer to psychical research, from Scottish ballads to literary quarrels with the age's biggest names.

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