False Prince and True, Portugal

The Lilac Fairy Book

by Andrew LANG (1844 - 1912)

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. Many of them were illustrated by Henry J. Ford. Lancelot Speed also did some illustrations. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of The Lilac Fairy Book:
Battle of Birds, Scotland , Believing Husbands, Scotland , Bones of Djulung, Unknown , Brown Bear of Norway, Scotland , Brownie of Lake, France , Castle of Kerglas, France , Enchanted Deer, Scotland , Escape of Mouse, Wales , Fairy Nurse, Ireland , Fish Story, Australia , Four Gifts, France , French Puck, France , Groac'h of Isle of Lok, France , Heart of a Monkey, Swahili , Hoodie Crow, Scotland , How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, Finland , Jogi's Punishment, India , King of Waterfalls, Scotland , Lady of Fountain, Wales , Little Lasse, Finland , Lost Paradise, France , Moti, Mid-East , One-Handed Girl, Swahili , Rich Brother & Poor Brother, Portugal , Sea King's Gift, Finland , Stones of Plouhinec, France , Story of a Very Bad Boy, France , The Raspberry Worm, Finland , Three Crowns, Scotland , Winning of Olwen, Wales , Wonderful Tune, Ireland