The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang 'The Brown Fairy Book', the ninth in Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Book series, was originally published in 1904. This edition contains all 32 of the original stories and all 50 of the original black-and-white illustrations. The collections were specifically intended for children, and consequently edited for that end. When Andrew began publishing these books there were almost no English fairy tale books in circulation. The series proved of great inf