The Blue Fairy Book is the first in a series of fairy tale anthologies beloved of children in the last century. When Andrew Lang published his first anthology, it was generally thought that fairy tales were not appropriate for children. His works proved his critics wrong, however, becoming bestselle[...]

The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night. This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selecti[...]