Mrs. Lang ~6 hr read

A treasury of strange and marvelous tales, ghosts and heroes, myths and true wonders from around the world, gathered as a farewell in the beloved Lang fairy-book tradition.

Mrs. Andrew Lang's 1913 collection is the last of the celebrated Lang colored fairy books. Rich, varied, enchanting. Read it for a final garland from the great series that gave the world the Blue and Red Fairy Books, a wide-ranging anthology of the strange and wonderful, drawn from folklore, legend, and history for young readers.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

H. J. Ford