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The Norka and Other Fairy Tales

Author
Andrew Lang
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
300 pages
ISBN
9781910343678
Published
15 July 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Norka
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore
  • fairies
  • family
  • society

Description

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen. They had three sons, two of them with their wits about them, but the third a simpleton. Now the King had a deer park in which were quantities of wild animals of different kinds. Into that park there used to come Norka and do fearful mischief...

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.