The Grey Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
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The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss Blackley, and Miss Hang. 'The Three Sons of Hali' is from the last century 'Cabinet des Fees,' a very large collection. The French author may have had some Oriental original before him in parts; at all events he copied the Eastern method of putting tale within tale, like the Eastern balls of carved ivory. The stories, as usual, illustrate the method of popular fiction. A certain number of incidents are shaken into many varying combinations, like the fragments of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope. Probably the possible combinations, like possible musical combinations, are not unlimited in number, but children may be less sensitive in the matter of fairies than Mr. John Stuart Mill was as regards music. (Summary from the preface) (9 hr 51 min)
Chapters
00 - Preface | 1:35 | Read by Maria Therese |
01 - Donkey Skin | 26:26 | Read by Linda Lee Paquet |
02 - The Goblin Pony | 4:42 | Read by Gesine |
03 - An Impossible Enchantment | 30:17 | Read by Bellona Times |
04 - The Story Of Dschemil and Dschemila | 34:21 | Read by om123 |
05 - Janni and the Draken | 10:50 | Read by Joseph Lawler |
06 - The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar | 12:10 | Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA |
07 - Fortunatus and His Purse | 13:16 | Read by A. J. Carroll |
08 - The Goat-faced Girl | 12:50 | Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA |
09 - What Came of Picking Flowers | 11:30 | Read by Sean Randall |
10 - The Story of Bensurdatu | 17:50 | Read by Sofia Otero |
11 - The Magician's Horse | 18:07 | Read by Lynne Handler |
12 - The Little Gray Man | 8:09 | Read by Elizabeth Zaranka |
13 - Herr Lazarus and the Draken | 6:50 | Read by Claudia Wilson |
14 - The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles | 17:14 | Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA |
15 - Udea and Her Seven Brothers | 20:42 | Read by Bellona Times |
16 - The White Wolf | 14:59 | Read by Mary Herndon Bell |
17 - Mohammed with the Magic Finger | 31:18 | Read by ashleyspence |
18 - Bobino | 11:18 | Read by om123 |
19 - The Dog and the Sparrow | 9:26 | Read by Bellona Times |
20 - The Story of the Three Sons of Hali | 50:51 | Read by Caeliveres |
21 - The Story of the Fair Circassians | 29:36 | Read by Amy Hengst |
22 - The Jackal and the Spring | 6:25 | Read by Sweetlilbirdy |
23 - The Bear | 12:26 | Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
24 - The Sunchild | 8:56 | Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
25 - The Daughter Of Buk Ettemsuch | 18:41 | Read by Kalynda |
26 - Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox | 8:49 | Read by alwpoe |
27 - The Unlooked-for Prince | 17:09 | Read by Lynne Handler |
28 - The Simpleton | 11:22 | Read by Elliott Miller |
29 - The Street Musicians | 8:41 | Read by Elliott Miller |
30 - The Twin Brothers | 17:28 | Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA |
31 - Cannetella | 14:29 | Read by Elliott Miller |
32 - The Ogre | 15:26 | Read by Elliott Miller |
33 - A Fairy's Blunder | 27:30 | Read by Phil Chenevert |
34 - Long, Broad, and Quickeye | 19:28 | Read by Michaela O'Connor |
35 - Prunella | 10:47 | Read by Melanie Hughes |
Reviews
Great
West
My sister just love this stories!! So thanks guys for your time in reading this books!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
awesome stories
Easonriley
loved this book.great readers
best of the best
Loren
Mrs. Lang and Andrew Lang are awesome and so is E. Nesbit
👍 great!!!
Brooke Favorat
good storys & readers!!!
kalynda. story nice. very much😆
Minitoon
love mix readers this is a good book love the readers but why the first story it is a rip off of the olive fairy book's many furred creature also btw idk why it got repeated twice. my review that is.