The Green Fairy Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Green Fairy Book, credited to Andrew Lang, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Green Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write." Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb-Hood also contributed some illustrations. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Green Fairy Book
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 12:07:11

Catalogue topics

• children
• fairy tales
• andrew lang

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 00 - Introduction — 6:16
2. 01 - The Blue Bird Part 1 — 26:52
3. 02 - The Blue Bird Part 2 — 24:06
4. 03 - The Half-Chick — 8:26
5. 04 - The Story of Caliph Stork — 21:30
6. 05 - The Enchanted Watch — 11:18
7. 06 - Rosanella — 13:06
8. 07 - Sylvain and Jocosa — 11:39
9. 08 - Fairy Gifts — 9:24
10. 09 - Princess Potentilla and Prince Narcissus — 37:16
11. 10 Prince Featherhead and Princess Celandine — 33:27
12. 11 - The Three Little Pigs — 10:37
13. 12 - Heart of Ice Part 1 — 22:47
14. 13 - Heart of Ice Part 2 — 20:51
15. 14 - Heart of Ice Part 3 — 29:36
16. 15 - The Enchanted Ring — 16:52
17. 16: The Snuff-Box — 11:05
18. 17: The Golden Blackbird — 11:13
19. 18 - The Little Soldier — 38:38
20. 19 - The Magic Swan — 8:29
21. 20 - The Dirty Shepherdess — 7:42
22. 21 - The Enchanted Snake — 15:15
23. 22 - The Biter Bit — 14:04
24. 23 - King Kojata — 30:43

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