The Lilac Fairy Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lilac 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 Lilac Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are 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), 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. Many of them were illustrated by Henry J. Ford. Lancelot Speed also did some illustrations.(summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lilac Fairy Book
• Author credits: Andrew Lang
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 9:47:21

Catalogue topics

• children
• fairy tales
• lang

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - Preface — 8:49
2. 02 - Shifty Lad, Scotland — 24:54
3. 03 - The False Prince and the True, Portugal — 15:22
4. 04 - The Jogi's Punishment, India — 13:55
5. 05 - The Heart of a Monkey, Swahili — 22:55
6. 06 - Fairy Nurse, Ireland — 10:23
7. 07 - Lost Paradise, France — 9:47
8. 08 - How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, Finland — 19:26
9. 09 - The King of the Waterfalls, Scotland — 25:15
10. 10 - A French Puck, France — 5:58
11. 11 - The Three Crowns, Scotland — 17:38
12. 12 - The Very Bad Boy, France — 13:32
13. 13 - The Brown Bear of Norway, Scotland — 20:14
14. 14 - Little Lasse, Finland — 17:19
15. 15 - Moti, Mid-East — 18:22
16. 16 - Enchanted Deer, Scotland — 17:05
17. 17 - A Fish Story, Australia — 5:41
18. 18 - Wonderful Tune, Ireland — 15:25
19. 19 - The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother, Portugal — 19:53
20. 20 - The One-Handed Girl, Swahili — 29:06
21. 21 - Bones of Djulung, Unknown — 9:51
22. 22 - The Sea King's Gift, Finland — 27:35
23. 23 - The Raspberry Worm, Finland — 11:44
24. 24 - The Stones of Plouhinec, France — 16:28

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