Prince Prigio
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Young adult and adult readers who enjoy fairy tales and fairy-tale parodies
- Readers and researchers studying Andrew Lang's fairy-tale writing
- English learners doing relaxed extensive reading with public-domain English originals
- Parents and teachers looking for short English fairy-tale materials for children
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting serious realism or profound social critique
- Beginners with weak English who need a Chinese parallel text
- Readers who prefer long, coherent plots and complex character arcs
Reading tips
- First learn the common conventions of traditional prince fairy tales; reading the book afterward makes its parody and humor easier to appreciate.
- Read in sections by chapter, and after each chapter retell the plot in one or two sentences to check comprehension and maintain momentum.
- Pay attention to the narrator's tone and word choice, and mark teasing and exaggerated passages as language-learning material.
- Read it alongside fairy-tale collections compiled by Andrew Lang to observe the differences between his writing and his compiling.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was a British writer, poet and folklorist best known for compiling collections of fairy tales and myths. The library holds 77 of his works, including The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book and The Brown Fairy Book, as well as Tales of Troy and Greece and The Homeric Hymns. He gathered, edited and retold folk tales from Europe and around the world, naming the volumes by colour; his clear, fluent prose served both children and folklore scholarship. These collections preserved a wealth of oral material and shaped the modern English-speaking world's image of fairy tales, leaving a lasting influence on fairy-tale publishing and comparative story research. Public information on his life is limited, so this note focuses on his editorial and literary contributions.
