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Soria Moria Castle and Other Fairy Tales

Author
Andrew Lang
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
300 pages
ISBN
9781910343654
Published
15 July 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Soria Moria
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore
  • fairies
  • family
  • society

Description

There was once upon a time a couple of folks who had a son called Halvor. Ever since he had been a little boy he had been unwilling to do any work, and had just sat raking about among the ashes. His parents sent him away to learn several things, but Halvor stayed nowhere, for when he had been gone two or three days he always ran away from his master, hurried off home, and sat down in the chimney corner to grub among the ashes again...

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.