Download The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. A classic 1890 fairy-tale anthology of folklore, magic, enchanted princesses, quests, dragons, and wonder. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and AZW3 formats.
About The Red Fairy Book
The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang is an 1890 anthology of fairy tales and the second volume in Lang’s celebrated Colour Fairy Book series. Drawing on French, Russian, Danish, Romanian, Norse, and other traditions, it gathers magical stories of enchanted princesses, clever thieves, dragons, strange helpers, impossible tasks, talking animals, and heroic journeys for readers of all ages.
Why Read The Red Fairy Book?
From dancing princesses and enchanted pigs to Koschei the Deathless, Rapunzel, the Golden Goose, and the story of Sigurd, The Red Fairy Book continues Andrew Lang’s famous journey through the world’s fairy-tale imagination.
The Red Fairy Book is an excellent choice for readers who enjoy fairy tales, myths, folklore, classic children’s literature, and magical stories drawn from many cultural traditions. Published in 1890, it followed the success of The Blue Fairy Book and helped establish Lang’s Colour Fairy Book series as one of the most influential English-language collections of traditional tales.
The volume offers a rich mixture of familiar and less familiar stories, including “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” “Soria Moria Castle,” “The Death of Koschei the Deathless,” “The Enchanted Pig,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Rapunzel,” “Mother Holle,” “The Golden Goose,” and “The Story of Sigurd.” Its range gives readers a lively sense of how fairy-tale patterns travel across countries, languages, and storytelling traditions.
Lang’s tales are full of the classic ingredients of fairy-tale adventure: royal children under enchantment, poor heroes who prove wiser than princes, magical animals, hidden kingdoms, wicked stepmothers, helpful strangers, dangerous bargains, and rewards for courage, kindness, loyalty, or cleverness. The stories move quickly, but they retain the old atmosphere of wonder, danger, and moral transformation.
The collection is especially valuable as a companion to the other Colour Fairy Books. Where The Blue Fairy Book introduced many of the best-known tales, The Red Fairy Book broadens the field with more international folklore and a strong sense of adventurous variety. It is both entertaining for young readers and rewarding for adults interested in the history of fairy-tale publication.
Readers who enjoyed Andrew Lang’s The Blue Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, or The Yellow Fairy Book will find The Red Fairy Book an essential companion, full of magical quests, memorable creatures, old-world storytelling, and enduring folklore charm.
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| The Blue Fairy Book | Lang AndrewAndrew Lang |
| The Green Fairy Book | Lang AndrewAndrew Lang |
| The Violet Fairy Book | Lang AndrewAndrew Lang |
