The Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) in collaboration with his wife Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851-1933) published The Blue Fairy Book in 1889 and it was to become the first of a series of twenty five collections of fantastical tales from around the world, ending with “The Strange Story Book” published in 1923.

In this first collection we find many of the traditional favourites from the “Fairy Tale” world, including amongst others “Goldilocks”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” “Rumpelstiltskin” and “Jack the Giant Killer”. While many of these have some vestige of the narrative we may be accustomed to through many sanitised adaptations, there are many surprises.

1. Opening Credits
2. The Bronze Ring
3. Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess
4. East of the sun and West of the Moon
5. The Yellow Dwarf
6. Red Riding Hood
7. The Sleeping Beauty in the Woord
8. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
9. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
10. The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was
11. Rumplestiltzkin
12. Beauty and the Beast
13. The Master-Maiad
14. Why the Sea is Salt
15. The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots
16. Felicia and the Pot of Pinks
17. The White Cat
18. The Water-Lily, the Gold-Spinners
19. The Terrible Head
20. The Story of Pretty Goldilocks
21. The History of Whittington
22. The Wonderful Sheep
23. Little Thumb
24. The Forty Thieves
25. Hansel and Grettel
26. Snow-White and Rose-Red
27. The Goose-Girl
28. Toads And Diamonds
29. Prince Darling
30. Blue Beard
31. Trusty John
32. The Brave Little Tailor
33. A Voyage to Lilliput
34. The Princess on the Glass Hill
35. The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou
36. The History of Jack the Giant-Killer
37. The Black Bull of Norroway
38. The Red Etin
39. Closing Credits