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Title: The Orange Fairy Book

Author: Various

Editor: Andrew Lang

Release Date: January, 2002 [Etext #3027]
Posting Date: October 14, 2009

Language: English

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Produced by J.C. Byers and L.M. Shaf

THE ORANGE FAIRY BOOK

By Various

Edited by Andrew Lang

CONTENTS:

The Story of the Hero Makoma

The Magic Mirror

Story of the King Who Would See Paradise

How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu

Ian, the Soldier's Son

The Fox and the Wolf

How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon

The Ugly Duckling

The Two Caskets

The Goldsmith's Fortune

The Enchanted Wreath

The Foolish Weaver

The Clever Cat

The Story of Manus

Pinkel the Thief

The Adventures of a Jackal

The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son

The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal

The Three Treasures of the Giants

The Rover of the Plain

The White Doe

The Girl-Fish

The Owl and the Eagle

The Frog and the Lion Fairy

The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired

The Princess Bella-Flor

The Bird of Truth

The Mink and the Wolf

Adventures of an Indian Brave

How the Stalos Were Tricked

Andras Baive

The White Slipper

The Magic Book

Preface

The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do
not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give
fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousins, leave prefaces
unread. For whom, then, are prefaces written? When an author publishes a
book 'out of his own head,' he writes the preface for his own pleasure.
After reading over his book in print--to make sure that all the 'u's'
are not printed as 'n's,' and all the 'n's' as 'u's' in the proper
names--then the author says, mildly, in his preface, what he thinks
about his own book, and what he means it to prove--if he means it
to prove anything--and why it is not a better book than it is. But,
perhaps, nobody reads prefaces except other authors; and critics, who
hope that they will find enough in the preface to enable