Lang’s preface insists, as always, that he did not write these stories but gathered them from the traditional tales of many peoples. This volume ranges from Estonia’s haunted Tontlawald and the Japanese Schippeitaro to Serbian, Romanian and Lithuanian tales such as Stan Bolovan and The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, along with liars, grateful princes and a lute-playing queen.
One of the most varied of Lang’s coloured Fairy Books, rich in Eastern European stories rarely found elsewhere. Download the free EPUB.