Fairy tales from more exotic locales.

all of the books in this series are great... fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales... absurd and wonderful and oddly familiar...uh, this is a 5-star book, but my stars aren't working right now.

Another fantastic fairy book. Fabulous illustrations as usual. 300 pages later and I still love reading each fairy tale!

As always... I love fairy tales.In this collection there were quite a bit that weren't familiar to me. Some of those were confusing to say the least.

Sadly, this collection ran more in the way of The Billy Goat And The King, in which the happy ending comes in the form of a wise old goat teaching the King to better control his wife by threatening to beat the poor woman. I'm afraid neither women or men come out of the grand majority of these stories at all well.There are a scant few tales in The Olive Fairy Book that I truly enjoyed, but they earn those three stars.

3.5 stars I think this was the first of Lang's Fairy Books that I ever read. I looked forward to trying it out again, but compared to most of the others I ended up with a rather short list of stories that I would re-read. most of them were enjoyable but just not very memorable for me since they dragged on a lot or were overly repetitive. These were the ones I did really like, and may re-read sometime: -The Blue Parrot-Little King Loc-A Long-Bow Story(loved this one!)-Thanksgiving of the Wazir-Sa...

I'm almost done with these and I honestly can't wait cause it's getting very repetitive.

These traditional fairy tale stories are rich in character building qualities. The sun may shine purple and zebras may be blue and green polka dots but however fantastical the imagined world may be the stories retain a faithfulness to the moral order of the actual universe. The characters in the metaphors are not just random figments of a fancy imagination but rather reflections of our own invisible world, the supernatural. The audio book version of "The Olive Fairy Book" is now complete and has...

As before with the Blue Book, many of these were long in length. I didn't recognize most of these, but my favorite new one is probably The Billy Goat and the King just because the characters amused me - the king with his giggles and the wife with her suspicious glares. Want a perfect life and happiness? Apparently that's achievable only by falling in love with a beautiful prince or princess - the moral of most of these stories.I may enjoy some of these more in print format since I listed to audi...

Andrew Lang's Colored Fairy Books are classics that I somehow missed as a child. This particular volume has a number of Armenian, Turkish, and South Asian tales in addition to European ones.

Very enjoyable tales full of magic and superstition and talking animals. I enjoyed The Silent Princess and The Thankfulness of the Wazir among the dozens of tales. I think this gave me a better impression of the beliefs of traditional India, though the tales from other countries also had remarkably similar lessons and outcomes.

At this point in the series, Lang must have long run out of the more familiar stories and casted further abroad for this 11th(!) installment of the Fairy Book series. If the volume is somewhat lacking in first-rate tales as a result, it largely makes up for this in freshness. There's also a general cohesiveness to the collection that at times lacking in the Red Fairy Book— sure, there's the same number of literary fairy tales that have been abridged beyond intelligibility— but overall the writin...

A wonderful collection of tales from Europe, the middle east, and Asia. These aren't the traditional "disney" fairy tales that have become so popular. Yes, many have happy endings, but these are traditional fairy tales that contain a point. Help the needy, don't betray your family, have patience, etc. Almost all the stories contain a note of origin, which enhanced their authenticity.

Andrew Lang - 5 start, naturally. Great collection of short stories from around the world. Some are very, very folksy.

The Olive Fairy Book is one of a series of compiled fairy tale books often referred to as the Rainbow Fairy Books or Coloured Fairy Books. The Folio Society currently offers the Blue Fairy Book but in the past has done all of them. The Olive Fairy Book is one of the more rare ones, so I borrowed from the library from the Dover collection. If you are interested in the collection, this Dover series is smaller and much more affordable. It also claims to contain every story from the original publica...

I first encountered the Lang collection, often called the Colored Fairy Books because of their titles (Blue, Olive, Crimson, etc.) when I was in elementary school. I enjoyed them because they were so different from the sanitized, prissy princess, modern versions, and I'm happy to see them now available (for very cheap) in Kindle format. We forget that fairy tales were not originally for children and were not created as vehicles for which to market toys and Happy Meals to toddlers. They were oral...

The best part of this book is the gorgeous original illustrations. This Dover publication is filled with illustrated plates every couple of pages that just scream to be filled with color they are so lovely. I borrowed this book from the library because I had seen the added Art Deco illustrations in the Folio Society publication and wondered if it was worth the spend-y $700+ price tag. I have to preface my review with the fact that I am not a big fan of short stories. I like character development...

I got this book for Christmas. It's definitely my favorite of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. I was lucky enough to get an illustrated version. The pictures are beautiful and the stories are entertaining.My favorite stories:- The Blue Parrot (my favorite one of all)- The Story of Little King Loc- Kupti and Imani- Dorani- The Story of Zoulvisia- The Snake Prince- The Boy Who Found Fear at Last- The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana- The Silent PrincessA few stories weren't to my liking (The Strange Adve...

A mix of tales leaning toward India and the Middle East. "The Green Knight" gives us a new and different promise a dying queen should not extract from her husband. "The Prince and Princess in the Forest" and "The Silent Princess" are unusual tales. Several literary French ones -- which I was, by this point, able to pick out of the others just by style.

This book is one of my favorites in the Lang collection because all of the stories are so unique and non-formulaic, though, of course, there are themes that appear in many fairy tales. The only story I dislike is The Billy Goat and the King which, though I'm not a feminist, does grate on me. Most of the others I love, and each other I like very much.