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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“His own fairy narratives, however, and their success in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, suggest… that fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”

—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies

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The Bottle Imp · 'A Shy and Fugitive People': Andrew Lang and the Fairies - The Bottle ImpFor Andrew Lang, the realm of fairy land was synonymous with escape. Writing in The New Princeton Review in 1888, the same year in which he assembled his authoritative edition of Perrault’s fairy tales and completed his own novel about fairy abduction The Gold of Fairnilee, Lang lamented the insistence in modern writing upon the ‘ugly, manly face […]
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“To me, Lang himself is a hero of literature. Besides being the champion of Robert Louis Stevenson & Haggard, he was the first critic to produce a study of Kipling’s work, found a publisher for the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s first major novel… & repeatedly informed the English that Mark Twain was one of the world’s great writers”

—Michael Dirda on Andrew Lang, in the Washington Post

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The Washington Post · More than a century later, the wonderful work of Andrew Lang holds up remarkably wellBy Michael Dirda
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“I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them in my iPad. These stories started their journey with me when I was very young.”

—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books

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The Guardian · Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson PeakBy Guardian staff reporter
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“The taste of the world, which has veered so often, is constant enough to fairy tales… we are still repeating to the boys and girls of each generation the stories that were old before Homer sang…”

—from Andrew Lang’s Introduction to THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK (1889)

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A first edition copy of THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK, edited by Andrew Lang (Longmans, Green & Co., 1889). The original blue cloth cover is stamped in gilt on the front and spine. The front cover shows a silhouette of a witch riding on a broom across a sky spangled with stars. A full moon, crossed by wisps of cloud, is in the top right corner. The spine reads THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK ANDREW LANG LONGMANS AND CO. There is an illustration at the bottom, of a giant looming over a smaller figure.
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