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The Strange Story Book

by Leonora Blanche LANG (1851 - 1933)

The Handless Brigade

A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those stories he had not included in other collections. In the preface, she pays tribute to her husband, saying he liked old things more than new, he loved all beasts' because they were beasts', fairies, cricket and dancing. He longed to visit far away places, but hated to travel. But most of all he befriended children wherever he went and they shared stories with him. Only his own children mocked him. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

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Listen next episodes of The Strange Story Book:
Aurore at Play , Blackskin , Blind Jack Again , Blind Jack of Knaresborough , How Aurore Learned to Ride , Land-Otter the Indian , Mrs. Veal's Ghost , The Adventures of a Spanish Nun , The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son , The Boyhood of a Painter , The Chief's Daughter , The Disinheriting of a Son , The Pets of Aurore Dupin , The Princess of Babylon , The Siege of Rhodes , The Son of the Wolf Chief , The Story of Djun , The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning , The Trials of M. Deschartres , What Became of Owen Parfitt?