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The Strange Story Book

A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those stories he had not included in other collections. In the preface, she pays tribute to her husband, saying he liked old things more than new, he loved all beasts' because they were beasts', fairies, cricket and dancing. He longed to visit far away places, but hated to travel. But most of all he befriended children wherever he went and they shared stories with him. Only his own children mocked him. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

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Preface by Mrs. Andrew Lang (Kalyn Heminger)
The Drowned Buccaneer (Aaron M. Lebowitz)
The Perplexity of Zadig (Sheri Elizabeth)
The Return of the Dead Wife (aishah143)
Young Amazon Snell (NoelBadrian)
The Good Sir James (Ulrike Denis)
Rip van Winkle (Diane Neigebauer)
The Wonderful Basket (NoelBadrian)
The Escape of the Galley-Slaves (Kalynda)
The Beaver and the Porcupine (EmmaS)
An Old-World Ghost (Lynne T)
The Gentleman Highwayman (drwebber)
The Vision of the Pope (Christine Lehman)
Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother (Aaron M. Lebowitz)
The Handless Brigade (Kathleen Moore)
The Son of the Wolf Chief (Susan Bell)
Blind Jack of Knaresborough (Susan Bell)
Blind Jack Again (Susan Bell)
The Story of Djun (Matthew Datcher)
What Became of Owen Parfitt? (Teresa McPeat)
Blackskin (JoeBlu)
The Pets of Aurore Dupin (JoeBlu)
The Trials of M. Deschartres (Ulrike Denis)
Aurore at Play (Deon Gines)
How Aurore Learned to Ride (Ulrike Denis)
Land-Otter the Indian (Kathleen Moore)
The Disinheriting of a Son (Kathleen Moore)
The Siege of Rhodes (DebK)
The Princess of Babylon (Kathrine Engan)
The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son (Aaron M. Lebowitz)
The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning (Kathleen Moore)
Mrs. Veal's Ghost (Kathleen Moore)
The Chief's Daughter (Omar H. Eldahan)
The Boyhood of a Painter (3Dad)
The Adventures of a Spanish Nun (Christine Lehman)
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