"In a part of Arabia where groves of palms and sweet-scented flowers give the traveller rest after toilsome journeys under burning skies, there reigned a young king whose name was Lino." From The Blue Parrot.
The Olive Fairy Book, with eight color plates by Henry J. Ford, can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
Oh dear.. I love fairy tales.. I just finished reading King Arthur for the umteenth time :)
ReplyDeleteThe irony of this is I signed up last year for a subscription to Easton Press's printing of Lang's entire Fairy collection--leatherbound, gold pages, the works. They're beautiful and worth every penny, but the idea that I can just download them is FUNNY.
ReplyDeleteLydia, your lesson was a lot more expensive than mine, I paid for a reprint of a French tatting book that is available for free online at the Antique Pattern Library :-(
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