TY - BOOK AU - Lang,Andrew AU - Ford,H.J. TI - The Brown Fairy Book AV - PZ PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fairy tales N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_Who_Would_Be_Stronger_Than_Fate; Release date is 2010-02-06; What the rose did to the cypress -- Ball-carrier and the bad one -- How Ball-carrier finished his task -- The Bunyip -- Father Grumbler -- The story of Yara -- The cunning hare -- The turtle and his bride -- How Geirald the Coward was punished -- Hábogi -- How the little brother set free his big brothers -- The sacred milk of Koumongoé -- The wicked wolverine -- The husband of the rat's daughter -- The mermaid and the boy -- Pivi and Kabo -- The elf maiden -- How some wild animals became tame ones -- Fortune and the wood-cutter -- The enchanted head -- The sister of the sun -- The prince and the three fates -- The fox and the Lapp -- Kisa the cat -- The lion and the cat -- Which was the foolishest? -- Asmund and Signy -- Rübezahl -- Story of the king who would be stronger than Fate -- Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-hearted -- Tale of a tortoise and of a mischievous monkey -- The knights of the fish; Produced by David Edwards, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Brown Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang is a fairy tale collection published in 1904. This volume gathers stories from diverse cultures, including tales of fate, prophecy, and destiny. Among its selections is an Indian tale about a king who attempts to defy a hermit's prophecy that his daughter will marry a slave woman's son. Through cunning twists and narrow escapes, the story explores whether mortals can truly outsmart destiny's design. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31201 ER -