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oooiooo
Unregistered User
(4/24/05 11:00 am)
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Andrew Lang's fairy tale books
Does anyone know why he would make those book name after certain color? Does each color fairy tale book have its special character? I mean do those stories in the same color book have any similarity?
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Rosemary
Lake
Registered User
(4/26/05 5:36 am)
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http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/indexbib.htm
Stories from a common source often seem to turn up in the same book. For example there are at least 15 Danish stories in THE PINK FAIRY BOOK. But it isn't completely uniform, there are stories from elsewhere mixed in.
Here's a place to check.
www.mythfolklore.net/andr...dexbib.htm
I don't know of any relation between the colors and the sources, other than that he began with the most obvious colors (blue, red, green, etc) and the easiest sources (Grimm, Andersen), and, roughly, as the colors get further from primary, the sources get further from western Europe. :-)
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Helen
J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(4/26/05 9:31 am)
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Re: http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/indexbib.htm
What an incredibly useful resource ... thanks for posting
that, Rosemary!
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Caerdroia
Registered User
(4/26/05 12:27 pm)
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Re: http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/indexbib.htm
Thank you so much for posting this link ! I've been looking for several of these stories for a while now, and couldn't remember which volumes they were in.
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