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The Orange Fairy Book

by Andrew LANG (1844 - 1912)

20 - The Rover of the Plain

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute 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 (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), 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 the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford. Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb Hood also contributed some illustrations. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Listen next episodes of The Orange Fairy Book:
21 - The White Doe , 22 - The Girl-Fish , 23 - The Owl and the Eagle , 24 - The Frog and the Lion Fairy , 25 - The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired , 26 - The Princess Bella-Flor , 27 - The Bird of Truth , 28 - The Mink and the Wolf , 29 - Adventures of an Indian Brave , 30 - How the Stalos Were Tricked , 31 - Andras Baive , 32 - The White Slipper , 33 - The Magic Book