The Olive Fairy Book Illustrated

Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.

This charming early work, first published in 1907, includes 30 unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and Sudan. The Olive Fairy Book is illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations by the master artist H.J. Ford.

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This book presents an imaginary world of fairy tales from different parts of the world. It contains 29 tales from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, Sudan, and France. The imaginary heroes are the Green Knight, who is saved by a soup made from nine snakes, the lovely Dorani, that flies every night to fairyland, courageous men who can hear animals, princes, able to transform into white foxes, and flying dragons, which are a must-have ingredient of every respectful book of fairy tales.

The Olive Fairy Book in this collection of fairy stories, there are 29 stories in this book. Edited by Andrew Lang, adapted from many languages and cultures by his friends and family, and beautifully illustrated. It is filled with romance, adventure, magic, and humor, with a bit of clever nonsense and a lot of entertainment. After this book is as published as any of the other Fairy Books of Many Colors.

This book is filled with classic fairy tales from all over the world.

The Olive Fairy Book is a collection of children's fairy tales from all over the world which have been translated into English, edited by Andrew Lang, . This book is one in a series (The Fairy Book Series) of texts edited by Lang and highlighting children's stories. The Olive Fairy Book contains stories from all over the world. There is The Blue Parrot from France, The Comb and the Collar from England, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir, a Punjabi story, Samba the Coward from Sudan, to name but a few. This book presents a wonderful opportunity for readers to take in stories as written by authors from a variety of different cultures and societies. It is also a good demonstration of how similar humans and the stories they tell are, regardless of where in the world the story is being told. Children will delight in hearing these stories of fairies, dragons, warriors, magical animals and beautiful princesses. As with all good fairy tales, the stories presented in this collection are intended to convey a lesson, there is a moral to every story. Though some of these lessons are clearly a product of another time, many still resonate today. Both children and adults will enjoy this light collection of classic stories. While not every tale included in Lang's collection is a homerun, there are enough enjoyable stories contained in The Olive Fairy Book to make this a worthwhile read. With each story being only a few pages long, you are never more than a few page turns away from being transported into an entirely new universe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.