The Magic Ring and Other Fairy Tales

Name: The Magic Ring and Other Fairy Tales
Author: Andrew Lang
ISBN: 9781910343784

Author: Andrew Lang
Series: Children's Classics
Language: English
Length: 256 pages
ISBN: 9781910343784
Published: 15 July 2014
Imprint: Sovereign

The Magic Ring
fairy tale
children
magic
bedtime
stories
folklore
fairies
family
society

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Description

Once upon a time there lived an old couple who had one son called Martin. Now when the old man’s time had come, he stretched himself out on his bed and died. Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his widow and son two hundred florins. The old woman determined to put by the money for a rainy day; but alas! The rainy day was close at hand, for their meal was all consumed, and who is prepared to face starvation with two hundred florins at their disposal?

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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