The Crimson Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 10 · 3,392 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Fairy tales · Folklore

Words worth knowing: scullion · marten · housework · swineherd · stepfather · somersault · distaff · giantess

THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK By Various Edited by Andrew Lang Preface Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing.

A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, just as a distinguished man of science is only the Editor, not the Author of Nature.

Like nature, popular tales are too vast to be the creation of a single modern mind.

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