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Discussing The Blue Fairy Book | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
To cap off our release of the stories from The Blue Fairy Book, we look back at who Leonora and Andrew Lang were, why anybody should care, and then go back and trace the provenance of these tales.
Beyond just identifying where they seem to have come from, we also explore how the Lang fairy stories work a little like a kaleidoscope, with the same pieces of coloured glass landing in different orders to create dramatically different outcomes.
We speak about the ones we really liked, the ones which left us less excited, and why - while also debating what made the Langs so obsessed with ATU Tale…
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