title: The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang
author:  Andrew Lang 
description: Lang's urge to collect and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the English-Scottish border. When Lang began his efforts, he was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day, who judged the traditional tales' "unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age."
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  # The Red Fairy Book
  
  
  ## Andrew Lang
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  **Published:** 1890  
  
  
  **Categorie(s):** Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Fairy Tales,
  
  
  Folk Tales & Mythology  
  
  
  **Source:** www.gutenberg.org
  
  
  
  
  
  **About Lang:**  
  
  
  Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk – July 20, 1912, Banchory,
  
  
  Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a
  
  
  poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to
  
  
  anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and
  
  
  fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at St Andrews University are
  
  
  named for him. Source: Wikipedia
  
  
  
  
  
  **Also available on Feedbooks
  
  
  Lang:**
  
  
  
  
  
  * _[The
  
  
  Arabian Nights_ (1898)
  
  
  * _[The
  
  
  Blue Fairy Book_ (1889)
  
  
  * _[The
  
  
  Violet Fairy Book_ (1901)
  
  
  * _[The
  
  
  Grey Fairy Book_ (1900)
  
  
  * _[The
  
  
  Crimson Fairy Book_ (1903)
  
  
  * _[The
  
  
  Yellow Fairy Book_ (1894)
  
  
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