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Strange Story Book (version 2)

This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stories and he had edited them before his demise. It is a collection of stories that are a bit different than the Fairy Books: still colorful and well written but telling tales about decidedly odd topics. A word of Caution: please read the stories before your children do, some of them contain some violent imagery. - Summary by Linda Andrus (11 hr 5 min)

Chapters

The Drowned Buccaneer

''The Perplexity of Zadig''

The Return of the Dead Wife

Young Amazon Snell

The Good Sir James

Rip van Winkle

The Wonderful Basket

The Escape of the Galley-slaves

The Beaver and the Porcupine

An Old-world Ghost

The Gentleman Highwayman

The Vision of the Pope

Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother

The Handless Brigade

The Son of the Wolf Chief

Blind Jack of Knaresborough

Blind Jack Again

The Story of Djun

What Became of Owen Parfitt?

Blackskin

The Pets of Aurore Dupin

The Trials of M. Deschartres

Aurore at Play

How Aurore learned to Ride

Land-Otter the Indian

The Disinheriting of a Son

The Siege of Rhodes

The Princess of Babylon

The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son

The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning

Mrs. Veal's Ghost

The Chief's Daughter

The Boyhood of a Painter

The Adventures of a Spanish Nun