Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp is perhaps the best known and most beloved pieces of folklore from the Arabian Nights collection, also known as the book of One Thousand and One Nights. This story was told and retold orally for decades or perhaps hundreds of years before being written down and added to the compendium. The tale of Aladdin and his lamp has been adapted into live action and animated films, plays, musicals, and more. This timeless story continues to delight and entertain audiences worldwide. We present to you the version transcribed by Andrew Lang, part of Bertrand Media'a Simple...

The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement, the stories are classed in different grades, as they advance from the normal and familiar to the undeniably startling. At the same time an account of the current theories of Apparitions is offered, in language as free from technicalities as possible. According to modern opinion every "ghost" is a "hallucination," a false perception, the perception of something which is not present.

This superb collection of fairy tales from Andrew Lang includes some of the best-loved children's stories of all time including the following: What the Rose did to the Cypress, Ball-Carrier and the Bad One, How Ball-Carrier finished his Task, The Bunyip and many more.

This superb collection of fairy tales from Andrew Lang includes some of the best-loved children's stories of all time including the following: Lovely Ilonka Lucky Luck The Hairy Man To your Good Health The Story of the Seven Simons The Language of Beasts, and many more.

This fascinating classic text by Andrew Lang tells the story of Troy and includes the following entries: The Boyhood and Parents of Ulysses, The Boyhood and Parents of Ulysses, How People Lived in the Time of Ulysses, and The Stealing of Helen, among others.

This anthology is a collection of famous fairy tales by the classic authors Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Andrew Lang (1844-1912), Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859). The book includes: * 30 fairy tales * 12 unique illustrations * a list of movie adaptations * vocabulary in context for advanced learners of English Enjoy the world of fantasy depicted in the following stories: The Tinder-Box (1835) The Princess and the Pea (1835) Little Tiny or Thumbelina (1835) The Little Mermaid (1837) The Emperor's New Suit (1837) The Brave Tin Soldier (1838) The Swineherd (1841)...

Andrew Lang was a very popular Scottish writer and folklorist who collected fairy tales and other mythology. The Arabian Nights Entertainment is one such collection.

Andrew Lang was a very popular Scottish writer and folklorist who collected fairy tales and other mythology. Lang titled his twelve fairy books after colors. Lang's most popular work is The Blue Fairy Book.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish writer and anthropologist. Lang is best known for writing fairy books and The Arabian Nights Entertainments. One of the most controversial characters of Elizabethan era was Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth's second cousin once removed. Mary was the granddaughter of Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's sister, which made Mary a claimant to the English Crown as well. Moreover, her Catholicism made Mary the true and rightful Queen of England in the eyes of many Catholics and The Vatican. Mary's first marriage to the Dauphin of France had made her the queen...

This is a concise but comprehensive biography of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is one of the most famous women in history: a French folk legend, a Catholic saint, and a military heroine. Yet almost nothing is truly known about the Maid of Orleans besides her ultimate fate, being burned at the stake when she was still a teenager. The Hundred Years War between France and England was one of the great wars of the feudal ages, a conflict literally spanning a century in which an untold number of men on each side died. That makes it all more amazing that a teenaged peasant girl came to the front lines....