title: A World of Fairy Tales
author:  Andrew Lang 
description: Grade 4 Up-Culled from Lang's 12 "color" fairy tale books, this remarkable collection features the full-color paintings and line drawings from the originals and covers a wide geographic range. An introduction provides background on Lang and the 24 tales, as well as good source notes for each one. The language is poetic and may prove challenging to some readers, but it does offer a rich source of vivid imagery. Ford's illustrations demonstrate the Pre-Raphaelite influence on his work and are so consistent with the tales that text and art form an integrated whole. The Rainbow Fairy Book (Morrow, 1993), illustrated by Michael Hague, is a comparable anthology. While it has more stories (31), they are more familiar ones, including "Hansel and Gretel," "Rapunzel," and "Cinderella." Only two are duplicated. Hague's volume has a similar introduction and a bibliography that gives early sources but does not indicate which book each story comes from. Librarians would be justified in purchasing both.<br /><i>Donna L. Scanlon, Lancaster County Library, PA</i><br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # The Threefold Destiny: A Fairy Legend
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  THE THREEFOLD DESTINY. A FAIRY LEGEND. BY ASHLEY
  
  
  ALLEN ROYCE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  DEDICATED TO
  
  
  CHARLES GRAFF, ESQ.
  
  
  AS A SMALL TOKEN OF THE COMPILER'S ESTEEM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  In preparing this work for the press, the chief object of the editor
  
  
  has been to provide a fund of amusing, entertaining and instructive
  
  
  tales for a leisure hour. He has extracted from various popular English
  
  
  and American authors, such portions as should, when united, form a work
  
  
  of interest and amusement. Endeavoring to suit all tastes, and by
  
  
  frequent transitions from grave to gay, to render it acceptable both to
  
  
  the pensive and cheerful disposition. He may safely say, that nothing
  
  
  will be found in these pages which can offend the most fastidious. And
  
  
  he hopes, though there may be litt