page_title: Lang's Fairy Books
section_title: The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
hierarchical_section_title: Lang's Fairy Books / Books / The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
caption_attribution_description: English: Ian and the Blue Falcon by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book
context_page_description: The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.
  Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He initially edited the series and wrote prefaces for its entire run, while his wife, the translator and author Leonora Blanche Alleyne, known to friends and family as Nora, assumed editorial control of the series in the 1890s. She and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories, as acknowledged in the prefaces. Four of the volumes from 1908 to 1912 were published by "Mrs. Lang".
  According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write."
context_section_description: Includes 33 tales from Jutland, Rhodesia, Uganda, and various other European traditions.
  "The Story of the Hero Makoma"
  "The Magic Mirror"
  "Story of the King who would see Paradise"
  "How Isuro the Rabbit tricked Gudu"
  "Ian, the Soldier's Son"
  "The Fox and the Wolf"
  "How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon"
  "The Ugly Duckling"
  "The Two Caskets"
  "The Goldsmith's Fortune"
  "The Enchanted Wreath"
  "The Foolish Weaver"
  "The Clever Cat"
  "The Story of Manus Pinkel the Thief"
  "The Adventures of a Jackal"
  "The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son"
  "The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal"
  "The Three Treasures of the Giants"
  "The Rover of the Plain"
  "The White Doe"
  "The Girl-Fish"
  "The Owl and the Eagle"
  "The Frog and the Lion Fairy"
  "The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired"
  "The Princess Bella-Flor"
  "The Bird of Truth"
  "The Mink and the Wolf"
  "Adventures of an Indian Brave"
  "How the Stalos were Tricked"
  "Andras Baive"
  "The White Slipper"
  "The Magic Book"
caption: Ian and the Blue Falcon by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book
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