The Blue Fairy Book
Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Bluebeard, Aladdin: thirty-seven fairy tales gathered from across Europe and beyond, in the versions that shaped how the English-speaking world tells them.
Things worth knowing
- Much of the collection was compiled and translated by other people, often Lang's wife Leonora Blanche Lang, whom he credited in his prefaces while his own name went on the cover.
- The thirty-seven tales differ sharply in length; the longest, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, runs over an hour in recorded form against under ten minutes for several others.
Checked against source.
Listen, or read along
Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 The Bronze Ring 21 min
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2 Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess 13 min
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3 East of the Sun and West of the Moon 19 min
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4 The Yellow Dwarf, Part One 22 min
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5 The Yellow Dwarf, Part Two 19 min
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6 Little Red Riding Hood 3 min
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7 The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood 19 min
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8 Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper 13 min
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9 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 25 min
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10 The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was 16 min
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11 Rumpelstiltzkin 5 min
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12 Beauty and the Beast, Part One 20 min
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13 Beauty and the Beast, Part Two 17 min
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14 The Master Maid, Part One 15 min
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15 The Master Maid, Part Two 13 min
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16 Why the Sea Is Salt 8 min
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17 The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots 9 min
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18 Felicia and the Pot of Pinks 16 min
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19 The White Cat, Part One 16 min
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20 The White Cat, Part Two 16 min
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21 The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners 14 min
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22 The Terrible Head 18 min
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23 The Story of Pretty Goldilocks 24 min
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24 The History of Whittington 14 min
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25 The Wonderful Sheep, Part One 16 min
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26 The Wonderful Sheep, Part Two 15 min
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27 Little Thumb 18 min
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28 The Forty Thieves 17 min
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29 Hansel and Grettel 13 min
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30 Snow-white and Rose-red 12 min
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31 The Goose-girl 11 min
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32 Toads and Diamonds 4 min
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33 Prince Darling 23 min
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34 Blue Beard 10 min
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35 Trusty John 14 min
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36 The Brave Little Tailor 15 min
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37 A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter One 11 min
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38 A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter Two 3 min
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39 A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter Three 7 min
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40 A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter Four 9 min
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41 A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter Five 4 min
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42 The Princess on the Glass Hill 17 min
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43 The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, Part One 20 min
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44 The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, Part Two 20 min
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45 The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, Part Three 19 min
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46 The History of Jack the Giant-killer 9 min
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47 The Black Bull of Norroway 8 min
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48 The Red Etin 9 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1889, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1912, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: Frontispiece, illustrator Henry Justice Ford, 1907.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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