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Posted October 11, 2010
These are some of the best stories of their kind. It's all the sweeter knowing that there may be some truth to it all!
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Overview
These are some of the original fairy stories behind popular modern fantasies like, “True Blood.”Andrew Lang's 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 ...