The Lilac Fairy Book (Dover Children's Classics)
Andrew Lang (1844 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. Although he 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 the collections immensely influential. Lang gave many of the 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 portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.