The Story of Princess Nobody: A tale of Fairy Land.

By Andrew Lang

The Story of Princess Nobody is a tale of Fairy Land.
A Charming story with equally charming illustrations which enhance the narrative of a much-loved classic that tells the story of Prince Comical and his search for the diminutive princess who doesn’t have a name.
To backtrack, the king and queen were childless, and a hasty promise was made by the King of the Fairies when a dwarf offers to provide him and his queen with a much-desired child. The condition was for her hand in marriage when she was old-enough. True to his promise, a child was soon conceived……
As a young girl, the princess lived a charmed life with loving parents, a doting fairy-Godmother and the birds of the forest as her companions.
The dwarf reappeared at the appointed time only for the king to realise what he had promised. Princess Nobody is whisked away and hidden deep in the forest in order to protect her. At first several royal suitors seek her out but without success. Finally, Prince Comical succeeds in his search for the diminutive princess overcoming a number of obstacles in his attempt to find her. He woos her and they fall in love and marry (look for the cute image of the prince and princess kissing across the top of a mushroom!) Realising the princess’ predicament has not altered, the prince and princess make a departure and disappear after the marriage and escape the dwarf, and the story has a “happy ever after” ending.
Elves, fairies, dwarfs and other denizens of fairyland will prove irresistible to anyone enchanted by the fantasy world of sprites and other little people.
Written by Andrew Lang in 1884, the master folklorist, after he saw the illustrations of Richard Doyle. This volume contains 61 BnW and colour illustrations by Doyle.
We invite you to curl up with your young ones with this unique sliver of Bedtime Fairy culture not seen in print for many-a-year, and immerse yourself and your children in the tales and fables of yesteryear.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Jun 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834147832

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 – July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang’s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew’s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang’s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture “On Fairy-Stories.”

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Acknowledgements

The Publisher acknowledges the work that

Andrew Lang and Richard Doyle

did in Illustrating, Writing and Publishing

The Story of Princess Nobody

in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

10% of the net from the sale from this book

will be donated to charities.

Contents

Ballade of Dedication

Acknowledgements

THE Princess Nobody

Chapter I The Princess Nobody

Chapter II  In Mushroom Land

CHAPTER III. Lost and Found

Erant Olim Rex  Quidam Et Regina

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Ballade of Dedication

To all you babes at Branxholm Park,

This book I dedicate;

A book for winter evenings dark,

Too dark to ride or skate.

I made it up out of my pate,

And wasted midnight oil,

Interpreting each cut and plate—

The works of Dicky Doyle!

When weary winter comes, and hark!

The Teviot roars in spate;

When half you think you’ll need the Ark,

The flood’s so fierce and great;

Think of the Prince and of his mate,

Their triumph and their toil,

And mark them drawn in all their state—

The works of Dicky Doyle!

Now, if my nonsense hits the mark—

If Wynnie, Pop, and Kate,

Think tales of Fays and Giants stark,

Not wholly out of date—

Another time, perchance, I’ll prate,

And keep a merry coil,

Though ne’er I’ll match the drawings great—

The works of Dicky Doyle!

ENVOY.

Girls, may you ne’er know fear nor hate;

Boys, field like Mr. Royle!

And, please, don’t say I desecrate

The works of Dicky Doyle!

Taming a Butterfly

THE Princess Nobody

Chapter I

The Princess Nobody

ONCE upon a time, when Fairies were much more common than