The Blue Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood. Andrew Lang

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Название The Blue Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood
Автор произведения Andrew Lang
Жанр Учебная литература
Серия Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
Издательство Учебная литература
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      The Blue Fairy Book

      Volume I

      By

      Andrew Lang

       Illustrated by

      H. J. Ford

      Copyright © 2015 Pook Press

      An imprint of Read Publishing Ltd.

      Home Farm, 44 Evesham Road, Cookhill, Alcester,

      Warwickshire, B49 5LJ

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or

      copied in any way without the express permission of

      the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from

      the British Library.

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      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Andrew Lang

       H. J. Ford

       The Bronze Ring

       Prince Hyacinth And The Dear Little Princess

       East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon

       The Yellow Dwarf

       Little Red Riding Hood

       The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood

       Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper

       Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp

       The Tale Of A Youth Who Set Out To Learn What Fear Was

       Rumpelstiltzkin

       Beauty And The Beast

       The Master-Maid

       Why The Sea Is Salt

       The Master Cat; Or, Puss In Boots

       Felicia And The Pot Of Pinks

       The White Cat

       The Water-Lily. The Gold-Spinners

       The Terrible Head

      List of Full Page Illustrations

       The old Jew shows the fishes to the Princess.

       The King of the gold mines encounters the four-and-twenty maidens.

       Cinderella’s Flight.

       The Prince’s Bride.

       The Gold-Spinners.

      Biography

      of

      Andrew Lang

      Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk, Scotland in 1844. He attended the University of St. Andrews – which now holds the Andrew Lang lecture series in his honour – and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied classical languages and literature. In 1875, Lang moved to London to pursue journalism. He became contributing editor of Longman’s Magazine, and published widely in a number of other publications, including Cornhill Magazine, MacMillan’s, The Daily Post, Fortnightly Review, the Overland Mail, Fraser’s and Time magazine. He also wrote a good amount of fiction, much of it inspired by the folklore and myth of Scottish history. His Fairy Book series (1889-1910) remains popular to this day. Lang died in 1912, while living in Aberdeen, Scotland.

      Biography

      of

      Henry Justice Ford was born in London, England in 1860. He was educated at Repton School and Clare College, Cambridge – where he gained a first class degree in the Classical Tripos – before returning to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. Starting in 1889, Ford began to produce the drawings for which he is now best-remembered, as part of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books.

      In 1892, Ford began exhibiting paintings of historical and natural subjects at the Royal Academy of Art. Over the next two decades, while continuing to work on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, he also illustrated The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898) and A School History of England by Charles Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling (1911). Hailing from a family of enthusiastic cricketers, Ford also played a lot of high-level cricket, including with J.M. Barrie. He was also an acquaintance of P. G. Wodehouse and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ford died in 1941, aged 81.

      The Bronze Ring

      Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was good, this garden yielded neither flowers nor fruits, not even grass or shady trees.

      The King was in despair about it, when a wise old man said to him:

      “Your gardeners do not understand their business: but what can you expect of men whose fathers were cobblers and carpenters? How should they have learned to cultivate your garden?”

      “You are quite right,” cried the King.

      “Therefore,” continued the old man, “you should send for a gardener whose father and grandfather have been gardeners before him, and very soon your garden will be full of green grass and gay flowers, and you will enjoy its delicious fruit.”

      So the King sent messengers to every town, village, and hamlet in his dominions, to look for a gardener whose forefathers had been gardeners also, and after forty days one was found.

      “Come