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    The Stonecutter
    The Stonecutter
    The Stonecutter
    Audiobook7 minutes

    The Stonecutter

    Written by Andrew Lang

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet and novelist, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.

    The Stonecutter is a fairy tale he collected in Japan. A stonecutter sees how rich people live when he is delivering a gravestone one day. From that day on he is dissatisfied with his own lot and wishes to be rich. His wish is granted by the spirit that lives in the mountain...but the stonecutter is still not satisfied with his life and makes further wishes, each taking him a little further on his quest for happiness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJun 11, 2018
    ISBN9781987110265
    The Stonecutter
    Author

    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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