Magical Musician

Author: Andrew Lang (UK)
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Publish Date: July 1, 2005
Features: This book is a part of the "Andrew Lang's Fairy Tale Classics" series, specifically the "Mayflower Princess" volume. It is a world fairy tale classic, alongside "The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales" and "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales." With nearly 500 classic fairy tales and over 900 original illustrations, it has sold millions of copies worldwide, with 80% of them being introduced to Chinese readers for the first time. Fairy tales are beautiful stories, and they are the kingdom of children's joy. Children around the world love fairy tales, gathering under moonlight, in tree shadows, or by the fireplace, listening to their mothers and grandmothers weave one beautiful story after another with great passion. Gradually, they form their own concepts of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, justice and wickedness. These treasures of oral tradition were first meticulously compiled by the famous French fairy tale collector Perrault, forming a collection of up to 60 volumes titled "The Cabinet of Fairy Tales." Later, Andrew Lang, a renowned Scottish writer and anthropologist, was captivated by this collection of human wisdom and, with the help of his wife, translated, organized, and edited these fairy tales. They were first published in 1891, named in 12 different colors: red, yellow, blue, and so on. Since then, it has been continuously republished and has become one of the world's most enduring and best-selling fairy tale collections. This series was first launched in 1891, named in 12 different colors: red, yellow, blue, and so on. Considering the reading habits of Chinese children, we have re-edited and organized these fairy tales, naming them as follows: "The True Prince," "The Knight of the Golden Fish," "The Witch on the Stone Ship," "The Blue Parrot," "The Invincible Hero," "The Magical Musician," "A Journey to Lilliput," "The Snow Queen," "The Fairy in the Sack," "The Magician's Gift," "The Death of the Sun God," and "The Magic Ring." Fairy tales are beautiful stories, and they are the kingdom of children's joy. Children around the world love fairy tales, gathering under moonlight, in tree shadows, or by the fireplace, listening to their mothers and grandmothers weave one beautiful story after another with great passion. Gradually, they form their own concepts of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, justice and wickedness. These treasures of oral tradition were first meticulously compiled by the famous French fairy tale collector Perrault, forming a collection of up to 60 volumes titled "The Cabinet of Fairy Tales." Later, Andrew Lang, a renowned Scottish writer and anthropologist, was captivated by this collection of human wisdom and, with the help of his wife, translated, organized, and edited these fairy tales. They were first published in 1891, named in 12 different colors: red, yellow, blue, and so on. Since then, it has been continuously republished and has become one of the world's most enduring and best-selling fairy tale collections. A famous Western educator once commented on Andrew Lang's edited fairy tales: "If children's lives were without those magical and beautiful fairy tales, their lives would be unimaginable; if this fairy tale paradise did not include the fairy tales compiled by Andrew Lang, their innocent hearts would not be perfectly nurtured." Due to information discrepancies in cultural transmission, Chinese children have only had access to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. In fact, in the Western world, which places great emphasis on using fairy tales for moral and life education, Andrew Lang's collected, translated, and organized fairy tales have brought children beautiful dreams and endless joy. Compared to "The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales" and "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales," Andrew Lang's selected fairy tales are more comprehensive and representative. He gathered nearly 500 traditional myths and classic fairy tales from all over the world, allowing children to read the authentic, concentrated wisdom of fairy tales from various ethnic groups. This series of fairy tales tells the legends of various characters from different perspectives, including imaginary fairies, witches, devils, monsters, and flying dragons, as well as cruel stepmothers, beautiful or ugly princesses, lucky or unlucky princes, giants, dwarfs, and various magical spells and sorcery. The stories often begin with characters that children love—such as an old man with a blue beard, a little cat in boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, and even the annoying toad and the beautiful pearl. Children can also enjoy the 900 exquisite illustrations by the world-famous illustrator Henry Ford in these 12 books. After years of careful translation and editing, Andrew Lang and his world-class fairy tales have finally met with the children of China! Considering the reading habits of Chinese children, we have reorganized and edited these fairy tales into 12 volumes, naming them as follows: "The Magic Mirror," "The Copper Ring," "The Blue Parrot," "The Headless Dwarf," "The Green Knight," "The Glass Mountain," "Mayflower Princess," "The Little Fairy," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Jungle Book," "Aladdin's Lamp," and "The Iron Rod." We sincerely hope that this treasure trove of world fairy tales will accompany children through an interesting and imaginative childhood!