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  • The Lilac Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: The Shifty Lad -- The False Prince and the True -- The Jogi’s Punishment -- The Heart of a Monkey -- The Fairy Nurse -- A Lost Paradise -- How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves -- The Ring of the Waterfalls -- A French Puck -- The Three Crowns -- The Story of a Very Bad Boy -- The Brown Bear of Norway -- Little Lasse -- ’Moti’ --...
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    29,02 €

  • The Grey Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: Donkey Skin -- The Goblin Pony -- An Impossible Enchantment -- The Story of Dschemil and Dachemila -- Janni and the Draken -- The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar -- Fortunatus and his Purse -- The Goat-faced Girl -- What came of picking Flowers -- The Story of Bensurdatu -- The Magician’s Horse -- The Little Gray Man...
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    29,02 €

  • The Green Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: The Story of Caliph Stork -- Rosanella -- Sylvain and Jocosa -- Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla -- The Three Little Pigs -- Heart of Ice -- The Enchanted Ring -- The Snuff-box -- The Little Soldier -- The Magic Swan -- The Dirty Shepherdess -- The Enchanted Snake -- The Biter Bit -- King Kojata -- Prince Fickl...
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    28,13 €

  • The Brown Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: What the Rose did to the Cypress -- Ball-Carrier and the Bad One -- How Ball-Carrier finished his Task -- The Bunyip -- Father Grumbler -- The Story of the Yara -- The Cunning Hare -- The Turtle and his Bride -- How Geirald the Coward was Punished -- Habogi -- How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers -- The Sacred ...
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    28,13 €

  • The Blue Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: East of the Sun and West of the Moon -- Little Red Riding Hood -- The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood -- Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper -- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp -- Rumpelstiltskin -- Beauty and the Beast -- Why the Sea Is Salt -- The Master Cat or Puss in Boots The Gold-spinners -- The Story of Pretty Goldil...
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    29,92 €

  • The Pink Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: The Cat’s Elopement -- How the Dragon was Tricked -- The Goblin and the Grocer -- The House in the Wood -- Uraschimataro and the Turtle -- The Slaying of the Tanuki -- The Flying Trunk -- The Snow Man -- The Shirt-Collar -- The Princess in the Chest -- The Three Brothers -- The Snow-queen -- The Fir-Tree -- Hans, the Merma...
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    56,46 €

  • The Orange Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: The Story of the Hero Makoma -- The Magic Mirror From the Senna -- 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...
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    50,04 €

  • The Pink Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Fairy Tales collected from around the world, including: The Cat’s Elopement -- How the Dragon was Tricked -- The Goblin and the Grocer -- The House in the Wood -- Uraschimataro and the Turtle -- The Slaying of the Tanuki -- The Flying Trunk -- The Snow Man -- The Shirt-Collar -- The Princess in the Chest -- The Three Brothers -- The Snow-queen -- The Fir-Tree -- Hans, the Merma...
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    27,78 €

  • Adventures Among Books
    Andrew Lang
    Contents: Adventures among books--Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson--Rab’s friend--Oliver Wendell Holmes--Mr. Morris’s poems--Mrs. Radcliffe’s novels--A Scottish romanticist of 1830 [T.T. Stoddart]--The Confessions of Saint Augustine--Smollett--Nathaniel Hawthorne--The paradise of poets--Paris and Helen--Enchanted cigarettes--Stories and story-telling--The supernatural in...
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    25,65 €

  • James VI And The Gowrie Mystery
    Andrew Lang
    This book contains a fascinating investigation into the 'Gowrie Conspiracy', by Andrew Lang. The conspiracy concerns the uncanny death of John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, which is shrouded in mystery to this day. This analysis of the notorious event will appeal to those with an interest in historical mysteries, and it is a veritable must-read for those looking for answers to t...
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    25,41 €

  • The Brown Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    The ninth book in Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books series, The Brown Fairy Book, published in 1904, contains myths and fairy tales from around the world. The tales-many from Native American and South American sources, others from Australia, Iceland, and India-include:. 'The Ball-Carrier and the Bad One'. 'The Wicked Wolverine'. 'How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers'. 'The ...
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    23,30 €

  • A History Of Scotland V2
    Andrew Lang
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,34 €

  • Books And Bookmen (1887)
    Andrew Lang
    ''Books and Bookmen'' is a collection of essays written by Andrew Lang, a Scottish writer and literary critic. The book was first published in 1887 and covers a wide range of topics related to books and literature. Lang discusses the history of books, the art of bookbinding, the lives of famous authors, and the role of libraries in society. He also includes personal anecdotes a...
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    26,90 €

  • The Story Of Joan Of Arc (1906)
    Andrew Lang
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,55 €

  • The Red Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Lang is known for being a poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He is most famous for his folk stories and fairy tales. The Coloured Fairy Books are a 12 book set. The stories in these books came from oral traditions. Many came from other languages and Lang was the first to bring them to English speaking readers. This series would be a perfect end ...
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    34,84 €

  • The Crimson Fairy Book
    Ed. Andrew Lang / EdAndrew Lang
    Lang is known for being a poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He is most famous for his folk stories and fairy tales. The Coloured Fairy Books are a 12 book set. The stories in these books came from oral traditions. Many came from other languages and Lang was the first to bring them to English speaking readers. This series would be a perfect end ...
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    30,45 €

  • The Lilac Fairy Book
    Andrew Lang
    Lang is known for being a poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He is most famous for his folk stories and fairy tales. The Coloured Fairy Books are a 12 book set. The stories in these books came from oral traditions. Many came from other languages and Lang was the first to bring them to English speaking readers. This series would be a perfect end ...
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    30,59 €

  • The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
    Andrew Lang
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    37,58 €

  • Historical Mysteries
    Andrew Lang
    The aim of this book is to prove that the Homeric Epics, as wholes, and apart from passages gravely suspected in antiquity, present a perfectly harmonious picture of the entire life and civilisation of one single age. The faint variations in the design are not greater than such as mark every moment of culture, for in all there is some movement; in all, cases are modified by cir...
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    30,52 €

  • Homer and His Age
    Andrew Lang
    In the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassanidae, who reigned for about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the great river Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who was said to be the best monarch of his time. His subjects loved him, and his neighbors feared him, and when he died he left his kingdom in a more...
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    30,23 €

  • A Monk of Fife
    Andrew Lang
    The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself. He did not know what to do with his cap, and was stuffing it into his coat pocket when the other took it from him. The act was done quietl...
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    30,06 €

  • The Arabian Nights Entertainments
    Andrew Lang
    The scene was a dusky shabby little room in Ryder Street. To such caves many repair whose days are passed, and whose food is consumed, in the clubs of the adjacent thoroughfare of cooperative palaces, Pall Mall. The furniture was battered and dingy; the sofa on which Logan sprawled had a certain historic interest: it was covered with cloth of horsehair, now seldom found by the ...
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    29,95 €

  • The Disentanglers
    Andrew Lang
    The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions which already possess an air of being firmly established. These conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of ’spirit’ or ’soul’ from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep, dreams, death, shadow, and from the experiences of trance and hallucination. Worshipping first the departed ...
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    29,75 €

  • The Making of Religion
    Andrew Lang
    It is not of my own will, nor for my own glory, that I, Norman Leslie, sometime of Pitcullo, and in religion called Brother Norman, of the Order of Benedictines, of Dunfermline, indite this book. But on my coming out of France, in the year of our Lord One thousand four hundred and fifty-nine, it was laid on me by my Superior, Richard, Abbot in Dunfermline, that I should abbrevi...
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    29,79 €

  • Historical Mysteries
    Andrew Lang
    ’Everyone has heard of the case of Elizabeth Canning,’ writes Mr. John Paget; and till recently I agreed with him. But five or six years ago the case of Elizabeth Canning repeated itself in a marvellous way, and then but few persons of my acquaintance had ever heard of that mysterious girl. The recent case, so strange a parallel to that of 1753, was this: In Cheshire lived...
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    34,26 €

  • Homer and His Age
    Andrew Lang
    The aim of this book is to prove that the Homeric Epics, as wholes, and apart from passages gravely suspected in antiquity, present a perfectly harmonious picture of the entire life and civilisation of one single age. The faint variations in the design are not greater than such as mark every moment of culture, for in all there is some movement; in all, cases are modified by cir...
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    33,97 €

  • The Arabian Nights Entertainments
    Andrew Lang
    In the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassanidae, who reigned for about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the great river Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who was said to be the best monarch of his time. His subjects loved him, and his neighbors feared him, and when he died he left his kingdom in a more...
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    33,69 €

  • The Disentanglers
    Andrew Lang
    The scene was a dusky shabby little room in Ryder Street. To such caves many repair whose days are passed, and whose food is consumed, in the clubs of the adjacent thoroughfare of cooperative palaces, Pall Mall. The furniture was battered and dingy; the sofa on which Logan sprawled had a certain historic interest: it was covered with cloth of horsehair, now seldom found by the ...
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    33,49 €

  • The Making of Religion
    Andrew Lang
    The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions which already possess an air of being firmly established. These conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of ’spirit’ or ’soul’ from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep, dreams, death, shadow, and from the experiences of trance and hallucination. Worshipping first the departed ...
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    33,52 €

  • A Monk of Fife
    Andrew Lang
    It is not of my own will, nor for my own glory, that I, Norman Leslie, sometime of Pitcullo, and in religion called Brother Norman, of the Order of Benedictines, of Dunfermline, indite this book. But on my coming out of France, in the year of our Lord One thousand four hundred and fifty-nine, it was laid on me by my Superior, Richard, Abbot in Dunfermline, that I should abbrevi...
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    33,79 €


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