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The Blue Mountains and Other Fairy Tales

Author
Andrew Lang
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
256 pages
ISBN
9781910343777
Published
15 July 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Blue Mountains
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore
  • fairies
  • family
  • society

Description

There were once a Scotsman and an Englishman and an Irishman serving in the army together, who took it into their heads to run away on the first opportunity they could get. The chance came and they took it. They went on travelling for two days through a great forest, without food or drink, and without coming across a single house, and every night they had to climb up into the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood. On the second morning the Scotsman saw from the top of his tree a great castle far away...

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.