The Olive Fairy Book (1907) by - H J Ford - Bog

The Olive Fairy Book includes unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France. Madschun The Blue Parrot Geirlug The King's Daughter The Story of Little King Loc A Long-Bow Story Jackal or Tiger? The Comb and the Collar The Thanksgiving of the Wazir Samba the Coward Kupti and Imani The Strange Adventures of Little Maia Diamond Cut Diamond The Green Knight The Five Wise Words of the Guru The Golden-Headed Fish Dorani The Satin Surgeon The Billy Goat and the King The Story of Zoulvisia Grasp All, Lose All The Fate of the Turtle The Snake Prince The Prince and the Princess in the Forest The Clever Weaver The Boy Who Found Fear At Last He Wins Who Waits The Steel Cane The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana The Silent Princess Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.... Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s.