Andrew Lang: 948 books

There was once upon a time a pig who lived with her three children on a large, comfortable, old-fashioned farmyard. The eldest of the little pigs was called Browny, the second Whitey, and the youngest and best looking Blacky...  

Once upon a time there lived a great king who had a wife and one son whom he loved very much. The boy was still young when, one day, the king said to his wife: 'I feel that the hour of my death draws near, and I want you to promise that you will never take another husband but will give up your life to the care of our son.'

There was a family of one man, who had a wife, three sons and a daughter. There were no animals next to their hat and one day the sons went for hunting outside. These had not gone far when their dogs scented a bear, and drove him out from the thicket. The eldest son killed the bear. They brought the...

No other poem in all the literature of the world excels or equals the Odyssey in variety of interest.  Its hero is the type of the gallant adventurer, and his journeyings take him into the Fairylands that delight children of a larger growth.  Odysseus was the King of Ithaca, and Ithaca was a tiny...

The period in which the story of The World's Desire is cast, was a period when, as Miss Braddon remarks of the age of the Plantagenets, “anything might happen. ” Recent discoveries, mainly by Dr. Schliemann and Mr. Flinders Petrie, have shown that there really was much intercourse between Heroic...

The scene of "A Legend of Montrose" is laid "during the period of that great and bloody Civil War which agitated Britain during the 17th century," and which finally cost Charles I his kingdom and head. In the Scottish Highlands the struggle lay between the Covenanters who adhered...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The chief purpose of the supernatural study, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement,...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. flowers to strew the lea; The soft Winds are their servants...

Children who have read our Fairy Books may have noticed that there are not so very many fairies in the stories after all. The most common characters are birds, beasts, and fishes, who talk and act like Christians. The reason of this is that the first people who told the stories were not very clever,...

The Story of Sindbad the Sailor

Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas and rivers, there stood a splendid city where lived King Archidej, who was as good as he was rich and handsome. His great army was made up of men ready to obey his slightest wish; he owned forty times forty cities, and in each city he had ten...

A King's son once had a great desire to travel through the world, so he started off, taking no one with him but one trusty servant. One day he came to a great forest, and as evening drew on he could find no shelter, and could not think where to spend the night....

Once upon a time there came to the ancient city of Rahmatabad a jogi* of holy appearance, who took up his abode under a tree outside the city, where he would sit for days at a time fasting from food and drink, motionless except for the fingers that turned restlessly his string of beads....

Once upon a time there lived a princess who was so beautiful and so good that everybody loved her. Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost died of grief when, one day, she disappeared, and though the whole kingdom was searched through and through, she could not be found in any corner of it...