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The Blue Fairy Book

By Andrew Lang

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Cover: Beauty Awakened (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood), illustration for The Blue Fairy Book (1889; this printing 1922) by Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (published before 1930; artist died 1941)

Andrew Lang's 1889 anthology of well-known fairy tales includes Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood and Aladdin. Drawing on French, German and Scandinavian sources, the stories are presented in plain, clear language.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: The Bronze Ring
  2. 2: Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess
  3. 3: East of the Sun and West of the Moon
  4. 4: The Yellow Dwarf
  5. 5: Little Red Riding Hood
  6. 6: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
  7. 7: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
  8. 8: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
  9. 9: The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was
  10. 10: Rumpelstiltzkin
  11. 11: Beauty and the Beast
  12. 12: The Master-Maid
  13. 13: Why the Sea Is Salt
  14. 14: The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots
  15. 15: Felicia and the Pot of Pinks
  16. 16: The White Cat
  17. 17: The Water-Lily. the Gold-Spinners
  18. 18: The Terrible Head
  19. 19: The Song of the Western Fairies
  20. 20: The Story of Pretty Goldilocks
  21. 21: The History of Whittington
  22. 22: The Wonderful Sheep
  23. 23: Little Thumb
  24. 24: The Forty Thieves
  25. 25: Hansel and Grettel
  26. 26: Snow-White and Rose-Red
  27. 27: The Goose-Girl
  28. 28: Toads and Diamonds
  29. 29: Prince Darling
  30. 30: Blue Beard
  31. 31: Trusty John
  32. 32: The Brave Little Tailor
  33. 33: Chapter 33
  34. 34: Chapter 34
  35. 35: Chapter 35
  36. 36: Chapter 36
  37. 37: Chapter 37
  38. 38: The Princess on the Glass Hill
  39. 39: The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou
  40. 40: The History of Jack the Giant-Killer
  41. 41: The Black Bull of Norroway
  42. 42: The Red Etin