Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:The Lilac Fairy Book, Edited By Andrew Lang, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyISBN13:9781463801120ISBN10:1463801122Author:Lang, Andrew (Editor)Description:Nobody Really Wrote Most Of The Stories People Told Them In All Parts Of The World Long Before Egyptian Hieroglyphics Or Cretan Signs Or Cyprian Syllabaries, Or Alphabets Were Invented They Are Older Than Reading And Writing, And Arose Like Wild Flowers Before Men Had Any Education To Quarrel Over The Grannies Told Them To The Grandchildren, And When The Grandchildren Became Grannies They Repeated The Same Old Tales To The New Generation Homer Knew The Stories And Made Up The 'Odyssey' Out Of Half A Dozen Of Them All The History Of Greece Till About 800 B C Is A String Of The Fairy Tales, All About Theseus And Heracles And Oedipus And Minos And Perseus Is A Cabinet Des F Es, A Collection Of Fairy Tales Shakespeare Took Them And Put Bits Of Them Into 'King Lear' And Other Plays; He Could Not Have Made Them Up Himself, Great As He Was Let Ladies And Gentlemen Think Of This When They Sit Down To Write Fairy Tales, And Have Them Nicely Typed, And Send Them To Messrs Longman & Co To Be Published They Think That To Write A New Fairy Tale Is Easy Work They Are Mistaken: The Thing Is Impossible Nobody Can Write A New Fairy Tale; You Can Only Mix Up And Dress Up The Old, Old Stories, And Put The Characters Into New Dresses, As Miss Thackeray Did So Well In 'Five Old Friends ' If Any Big Girl Of Fourteen Reads This Preface, Let Her Insist On Being Presented With Five Old Friends Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:AEGYPANPublication Date:2011-06-13Weight:0.78 lbsDimensions:0.54'' H x 9'' L x 6'' WNumber of Pages:238Language:English
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Book Title: Lilac Fairy Book
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.5in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Andrew Lang
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, General, People & Places / Europe
Publisher: Rodgers Books, Alan
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
