The Red Fairy Book - Illustrated: Tolkien's Bookshelf #4: Volume 4 - Brossura

Lang, Andrew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0987555421 ISBN 13: 9780987555427

Casa editrice: Leaves of Gold Press, 2013

Riassunto

THE PROFESSOR'S BOOKSHELF #4: THE RED FAIRY BOOK 'I have been a lover of fairy stories since I learned to read,' Professor J.R.R. Tolkien once stated. The Red Fairy Book was one of Tolkien's favourites. Fantasy and medieval literature specialist Douglas A. Anderson asserted, 'As a child Tolkien found delight in the variously coloured fairy tale books of Andrew Lang. Especially he enjoyed The Red Fairy Book, for it contained Lang's retelling of one of the greatest dragon stories in northern literature, that of Fafnir from the Volsung Saga.' In a 1965 interview Tolkien said, 'Dragons always attracted me as a mythological element. They seemed to be able to comprise human malice and bestiality together so extraordinarily well, and also a sort of malicious wisdom and shrewdness - terrifying creatures!' The Red Fairy Book was illustrated by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. As a child, and later as an adult, Tolkien was exposed to these pictures as he leafed through the pages of the fairytales. Consciously or unconsciously, he came under their spell. The gorgeously illustrated Red Fairy Book was a source of immense joy to Tolkien as he was growing up, and no doubt it contributed to his creation of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books-also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors-are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own color. In all, 437 tales from a broad range of cultures and countries are presented. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. Although he did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally-with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy-made the collections immensely influential. Lang gave many of the tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and retelling of the actual stories. According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession-literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel...he is best recognized for the works he did not write." Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, with Lancelot Speed and G. P. Jacomb-Hood also contributing some illustrations.

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• Editore: Leaves of Gold Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0987555421
• ISBN 13: 9780987555427
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 468
• Disegnatore: Ford H.J., Speed Lancelot