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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet and novelist, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “The Donkey Skin” is a strange fairy tale of a princess who escapes an unwanted marriage by running away from the palace dressed in a donkey skin, to a hard life of poverty as a hen-wife. When a young prince happens to catch a glimpse of her without her donkey skin, he falls in love with her. But how is he to find the beautiful maiden again?
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Summary
Summary
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet and novelist, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “The Donkey Skin” is a strange fairy tale of a princess who escapes an unwanted marriage by running away from the palace dressed in a donkey skin, to a hard life of poverty as a hen-wife. When a young prince happens to catch a glimpse of her without her donkey skin, he falls in love with her. But how is he to find the beautiful maiden again?
Author
Author Bio: Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (1844–1912), a Scottish man of letters educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford, became a prolific and versatile London journalist. He took a leading part in the controversy with Max Müller and his school about the interpretation of mythology and folk tales. He published several volumes of verse and several solid contributions to the study of the philosophy and religion of primitive man. He also wrote the four-volume History of Scotland, A History of English Literature, and many fairy-tale collections, as well as works on Homer, Joan of Arc, Scott, Lockhart, Mary Stuart, John Knox, Prince Charlie, Tennyson, and others.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Runtime: | 0.39 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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