The Blue Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood. Andrew Lang
Читать онлайн.| Название | The Blue Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood |
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| Автор произведения | Andrew Lang |
| Жанр | Учебная литература |
| Серия | Andrew Lang's Fairy Books |
| Издательство | Учебная литература |
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| isbn | 9781473365285 |
The Blue Fairy Book
Volume I
By
Andrew Lang
Illustrated by
H. J. Ford
Copyright © 2015 Pook Press
An imprint of Read Publishing Ltd.
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Contents
Prince Hyacinth And The Dear Little Princess
East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon
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
The Master Cat; Or, Puss In Boots
The Water-Lily. The Gold-Spinners
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.
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
H. J. Ford
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