Download or read book Arcane Gold: A Treasury of Andrew Lang's Strange Fairy Tales written by Jared Stevenson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Lang, critical writer and collector of fairy tales, had gathered one of the most impressive collections of stories into a series of twelve fairy books. With tales spanning many cultures and countries, Andrew Lang's Fairy Books exhibited some of the strangest yet most mesmerizing tales chronicled throughout the 19th century. This collection highlights some of the more obscure or lesser known fairy tales gathered by Andrew Lang. Once again feel the visceral and enchanting magic invoked by Cinderella or Hansel and Gretel with these stories that have only entered the fringes of the public eye. Together, these twenty-eight fairy tales selected from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books represent the rich and secret depths of the archetypical spirit forged by the oral tradition.