Book Description

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. The All Sorts of Stories Book contains thirty stories on a variety of subjects, including true stories, Greek myths, and stories from Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe. Stories Included Within This Book: How a Boy became first a Lamb and then an Apple The Battle of the White Bull The Serpents' Gift Meleager the Hunter The Vanishing of Bathurst In the Shadow of the Guillotine The Flight of the King The Real Robinson Crusoe How the Russian Soldier was Saved Marbot and the Young Cossack Heracles the Dragon-Killer Old Jeffery The Adventures of a Prisoner What became of Old Mr. Harrison? Aunt Margaret's Mirror The Prisoner of the Chateau d'lf The Hunt for the Treasure The Story of the Gold Beetle Loreta Velazquez, the Military Spy The Farmer's Dream The Sword of D'Artagnan The Bastion Saint-Gervais Little General Monk The Horse with Wings The Prize of Jeanne Jugan Unlucky John How the Siamese Ambassadors reached the Cape The Strange Tale of Ambrose Gwinett With the Redskins The Wreck of the 'Drake'