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The Orange Fairy Book

The Orange Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew
Various

Paperback

Fairy Tales & Folklore

ISBN10: 1533689431
ISBN13: 9781533689436
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 9 2016
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.42 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

The Orange Fairy Book

By Various

Edited by Andrew Lang

The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousins, leave prefaces unread. For whom, then, are prefaces written? When an author publishes a book 'out of his own head, ' he writes the preface for his own pleasure. After reading over his book in print--to make sure that all the 'u's' are not printed as 'n's, ' and all the 'n's' as 'u's' in the proper names--then the author says, mildly, in his preface, what he thinks about his own book, and what he means it to prove--if he means it to prove anything--and why it is not a better book than it is. But, perhaps, nobody reads prefaces except other authors; and critics, who hope that they will find enough in the preface to enable them to do without reading any of the book.

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