The Wizard King, Andrew Lang
The Wizard King, Andrew Lang
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The Wizard King

Author: Andrew Lang

Narrator: Wes Talbot

Unabridged: 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/03/2012

Synopsis

After losing his beloved wife, a king, who was also a wizard, sets off on a voyage to foreign lands, as he can't stand to be reminded of his lost wife. Using his wizardry, he sets his sights on a princess who he locks up in a tower, hoping she will one day give in and marry him. He then finds out that the princess may have set her sights on his own son and sends his son away. His son travels to the kingdom that the captured princess had come from and, consulting his mother's fairy godmother, comes up with a plan to try to save the princess.

About Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish man of letters educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford, became a prolific and versatile London journalist. He took a leading part in the controversy with Max Müller and his school about the interpretation of mythology and folk tales. He published several volumes of verse and several solid contributions to the study of the philosophy and religion of primitive man. He also wrote the four-volume History of Scotland, A History of English Literature, and many fairy-tale collections, as well as works on Homer, Joan of Arc, Scott, Lockhart, Mary Stuart, John Knox, Prince Charlie, Tennyson, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by M.M. Strawberry on December 05, 2024

(Included in the Yellow Fairy Book) So many of these evil wizards just come across as incels and this one is no exception - even if his wife died, it didn't make it ok to kidnap the princess of another hand. All's well that ends well, though as the princess and the wizard's son fall in love.......more

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