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The Scottish writer who collected the world's fairy tales into the colored Fairy Books.
Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer best known for his colored Fairy Books, twelve collections that brought fairy tales from all over the world to English-speaking children.
Lang was born in Selkirk in 1844 and studied at St Andrews and Oxford. He was a busy man of letters: a poet, a journalist, a translator of Homer, and a scholar of myths and folklore.
Starting with The Blue Fairy Book in 1889, Lang edited a colored Fairy Book nearly every year until 1910: red, green, yellow, pink, grey, violet, crimson, brown, orange, olive and lilac. He chose the stories from French, Norse, Russian, Arabic and many other traditions, and his wife Leonora and a team of helpers did much of the retelling. The books made fairy tales respectable again for children, and many of the stories in them, like East of the Sun, West of the Moon, first reached English readers this way.
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table
The knights of Camelot, retold for young readers. Our most-played Lang title.
3 hr 52 min · read by Michael Lyons 
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
A Norse tale of a girl, a white bear and a castle at the end of the world.
31 min · read by Stuart Summers 
The Princess on the Glass Hill
A Norwegian favorite: a hill of glass that only the bravest can climb.
21 min · read by Matt Goodluck 
Narrated by Brett Carter
Lemuel Gulliver is a ship's surgeon with an itch to travel. When his ship is wrecked he washes ashore, falls asleep, and wakes to find himself tied to the ground by hundr...
Narrated by Erika Calvert
A little brother and sister run away from a cruel stepmother. They are thirsty, but the brother knows the brooks are enchanted. He finally drinks and is changed into a fa...
Narrated by Eleesha Lewis
A girl is sent to a pool in the forest by her cruel stepmother. Three heads rise out of the water and ask her to wash them, brush them and kiss them. She does it kindly,...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
Psyche is so beautiful that people begin to worship her instead of Venus. The goddess is furious and sends her son Cupid to punish the girl. Instead, Cupid falls in love...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
A twelve-son family sends its youngest out into the world, and he finds work in a king's palace. The king's only daughter has been carried off into the mountains by a Tro...
Narrated by Susan G Fellows
Drakestail is a tiny duck with a big heart, and the king owes him money. When the king will not pay, Drakestail sets out on foot for the palace to collect, picking up odd...
Narrated by Stuart Summers
A poor man's youngest daughter agrees to go away with a great white bear, and she is taken to a castle where no one is seen by day. At night, a stranger comes to her bed....
Narrated by Jessica Marchbank
A farmer's son is sent to work for Farmer Weatherbeard, a master of wind and weather who carries the boy off. The boy can change shape. When he escapes, the farmer gives...
Narrated by Eleesha Lewis
When a poor laborer dies, his son Bruno gets a hen and two stools. His daughter Felicia gets a pot of pinks and a silver ring. Bruno mistreats his sister. Then Felicia fi...
Narrated by Michele Wagner
Prince Hyacinth is born with a nose far too big. His mother makes sure no one ever mentions it. When he falls in love with a princess he has seen only in a portrait, a so...
Narrated by Michael Lyons
Andrew Lang’s classic Arthurian adventures spring to life in Michael Lyons’s resonant narration—Excalibur, Camelot, and the Grail in a timeless saga of valor, love, and d...
Narrated by Estelle Belong-Smirtnikova
A dying queen makes her husband promise to hide their sons. After he marries again, the new queen learns the secret and sets the boys a deadly task: steal the wild Steed...
Narrated by Veronica Saretsky
A king has a tree that bears golden apples, but every year the apples are stolen just as they ripen. His two eldest sons ride off to find the thief. The youngest, whom ev...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
Count Burchard of Quesnoy, in Flanders, is called Burchard the Wolf because he is so cruel he makes his peasants pull the plough. His wife, the Countess, is loved by ever...
Narrated by Sumara Meers
An emperor has three sons who love to hunt. One morning the eldest chases a hare through the forest to an old mill. There the hare turns into a dragon breathing fire, and...
Narrated by Matt Goodluck
A man's meadow is robbed of its hay every St. John's Eve, as if a flock of sheep had eaten it overnight. He sends his three sons to keep watch in the barn. The two elder...
Narrated by Luke Oldham
Joan was a farm girl in France who heard voices telling her to save her country. At seventeen she led an army, saw the king crowned at Reims, and changed the course of th...
Narrated by Phil Thompson
Sigurd is a hero of the old Norse sagas. He wins the great treasure of the dragon Fafnir and rides to wake a sleeping maiden surrounded by flame. It is a story of swords,...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
A princess vows seven years of silence to save her twelve brothers, cursed into ravens. Andrew Lang’s timeless Grimm tale soars with peril, devotion, and a triumphant fin...
Narrated by Eleesha Lewis
A king has three sons and wants to know which should have his crown. He sets them tasks: bring back the smallest dog, the finest cloth. The youngest prince follows an unl...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
Prince Iwanich loves Militza and lives happily in her palace. She leaves him with one request: he must never open one room in the house. When he does, he is carried away...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
A man and a woman have an only daughter. One day a sheep strays, and the woman goes into the wood to find it. A witch meets her there and turns her into a black sheep, th...
Narrated by Eric Leeb
A king has three daughters, and the youngest, Miranda, is the prettiest and most loved. When enemies make war on the kingdom, Miranda flees into a forest. In a glade she...
Narrated by T.T. Ntehelang
A queen's daughter, so lovely she is called Toute-Belle, is promised to the Yellow Dwarf by her mother, who has been captured by him. She refuses, and the Dwarf is determ...
Narrated by Eleesha Lewis
Two sisters live with their mother. The elder is proud and unkind, and the younger is gentle. One day at the well, a poor old woman asks the younger sister for a drink, a...
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
A starry-eyed cowherd follows twelve princesses to a moonlit, enchanted ballroom to break a spell and find true love—brought to life by narrator Mike Polischuk.
Narrated by Mike Polischuk
Two brothers, one rich and one poor, live in a country of long cold winters. The poor brother has nothing for Christmas, so he goes to ask the rich one for help. He is se...
Born in Selkirk, Scotland.
The Blue Fairy Book, the first of the colored Fairy Books.
The Red Fairy Book.
The Lilac Fairy Book, the last of the series.
Dies in Banchory, Scotland.
Twelve collections of fairy tales from around the world, each named after a color, published from 1889 to 1910.
No. He chose and edited them, and his wife Leonora and other writers translated and retold many of them.
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table is our most-played. For a classic fairy tale, try East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
Academy Voices has 27 Andrew Lang audiobooks, each performed by a real narrator, with a free sample on every one. Every recording is Certified Human Voice.
Reviewed October 2026 by the Academy Voices team. Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata .
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HomerThe ancient Greek poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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