The Red Romance Book

The Red Romance Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The Red Romance Book

The Red Romance Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The Red Romance Book (Illustrated)

The Red Romance Book (Illustrated) PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Originally published in 1921. Contents include: How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf - The Disenchantment of the Werwolf - The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands - The Death of Gunnar - Njal's Burning - The Lady of Solace - Una and the Lion - How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon - Amys and Amyle - The Tale of the Cid - The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance - The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep - The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights - The Helmet of Mambrino - How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle - Don Quixote's Home-coming - The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies - How Oberon saved Huon - Havelok and Goldborough - Cupid and Psyche - Sir Bevis the Strong - Ogier the Dane - How the Ass became a Man again - Guy of Warwick - How Bradamante conquered the Wizard - The Ring of Bradamante - The Fulfilling of the Prophecy - The Knight of the Sun - How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father. Author: Andrew Lang Language: English Keywords: Literature (Novel) / Fairy Stories / High Adventure Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Red Romance Book

The Red Romance Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Languages : en
Pages : 346

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The stories that they read were called 'romances,' but were in prose. Before people could read they were not in prose but in poetry, and were recited by minstrels. Mrs. Lang, who did the stories in this book, says: 'Many hundreds of years ago, when most of these stories were told in the halls of great castles, the lives of children were very different from what they are now. The little girls were taught by their mothers' maidens to spin and embroider, or make simple medicines from the common herbs, and the boys learnt to ride and tilt, and shoot with bows and arrows; but their tasks done, no one paid any further heed to them. They had very few games, and in the long winter evenings the man who went from house to house, telling or singing the tales of brave deeds, must have been welcome indeed. From him the children, who early became men and women, heard of the evil fate that awaited cowardice and treachery, and grew to understand that it was their duty through life to help those that were weaker than themselves.' That was long, long ago, when nobody but priests and a very few gentlemen could read and write. They just listened to stories in rhyme, which the minstrels sang, striking their harps at the end of each verse. The stories were really fairy tales, dressed up and spun out, and instead of 'a boy' or 'a king' or 'a princess' with no name, the old fairy adventures were said to have happened to people with names: King Arthur, or Charlemagne, or Bertha Broadfoot. A little real history came in, but altered, and mixed up with fairy tales, and done into rhyme.

The Red Romance Book

The Red Romance Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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ISBN: 9781701724440
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Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The Red Romance Book: Tales of Knights, Dragons & High Adventure is a book of heroic tales and legends. It was edited by Andrew Lang with illustrations by Henry J. Ford, and published in London by Longmans, Green, and Co. in 1905.

The Red Romance Book

The Red Romance Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1609777050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Now, in this book, we have made the old romances much shorter, keeping the liveliest parts, in which curious things happen. Some of the tales were first told in Iceland eight hundred years ago, and are mostly true and about real people. Some are from the ancient French romances of the adventures of Charlemagne, and his peers and paladins. Some are from later Italian poems of the same kind. 'Cupid and Psyche' is older, and so is the story of the man who was changed into a donkey. These are from an old Latin romance, written when people were still heathens, most of them. Some are about the Danes in England (of whom you may have heard), but there is not much history in them.

The Book of Romance

The Book of Romance PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Re-tells the epic sagas of King Arthur, Roland, William Short Nose, Diarmid, Robin Hood, Wayland the Smith, and Grettir the Strong.

The Red Romance Book

The Red Romance Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf - The Disenchantment of the Werwolf - The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands - The Death of Gunnar - Njal's Burning - The Lady of Solace - Una and the Lion - How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon - Amys and Amyle - The Tale of the Cid - The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance - The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep - The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights - The Helmet of Mambrino - How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle - Don Quixote's Home-coming - The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies - How Oberon saved Huon - Havelok and Goldborough - Cupid and Psyche - Sir Bevis the Strong - Ogier the Dane - How the Ass became a Man again - Guy of Warwick - How Bradamante conquered the Wizard - The Ring of Bradamante - The Fulfilling of the Prophecy - The Knight of the Sun - How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father. Author: Andrew Lang Language: English Keywords: Literature (Novel) / Fairy Stories / High Adventure Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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A collection of traditional stories for children from England, Ireland, France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Rumania, and Finland.

The Red Romance Book (Esprios Classics)

The Red Romance Book (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: Andrew Lang
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ISBN: 9781034408215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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The Strange Story Book

The Strange Story Book PDF Author: Mrs. Lang
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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