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The Lilac Fairy Book

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“The Lilac Fairy Book” is a collection of fairy tales for children compiled by Andrew Lang and published in the early 20th century. This and other of Lang's books were some of the first compilations of fairy tales published in English. Lang included stories from many oral traditions around the world. His collections of fairy tales were a huge influence on future authors of stories for children.

The complete list of stories in this eBook is as follows:

Preface
The Shifty Lad
The False Prince and the True
The Jogi's Punishment
The Heart of a Monkey
The Fairy Nurse
A Lost Paradise
How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves
The King of the Waterfalls
A French Puck
The Three Crowns
The Story of a Very Bad Boy
The Brown Bear of Norway
Little Lasse
Moti
The Enchanted Deer
A Fish Story
The Wonderful Tune.
The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother
The One-Handed Girl
The Bones of Djulung
The Sea King's Gift
The Raspberry Worm
The Stones of Plouhinec
The Castle of Kerglas
The Battle of the Birds
The Lady of the Fountain.
The Four Gifts
The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok
The Escape of the Mouse
The Believing Husbands
The Hoodie-Crow.
The Brownie of the Lake
The Winning of Olwen


HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can read through the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on 'Start where I left off...' to continue reading at the point at which you last closed the eBook.

The eBook application allows you to change the text's font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

The application keeps track of your current position in the text as you read and saves this position when you close the application. Upon relaunching the application, you can easily resume reading at the position of this virtual bookmark.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Tested

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Last changed:

Apr 23, 2009

Category:

Books

Developer:

Matthew Szenher

Version:

1.0

Average Rating:

4.50 (2)

Size:

0.3 MB

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