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The Red Romance Book, by Various
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Title: The Red Romance Book
Author: Various
Editor: Andrew Lang
Illustrator: Henry Ford
Release Date: February 15, 2008 [EBook #24624]
Language: English
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[Illustration: HOW GUNNAR MET HALLGERDA]
THE RED ROMANCE BOOK
EDITED BY ANDREW LANG
[Illustration]
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
1921
PREFACE
WHAT ROMANCES ARE
(TO CHILDREN AND OTHERS)
I once read a book about a poor little lonely boy in a great house with a large library. This boy was pale, dull, and moping. Nobody knew what was the matter with him. But somebody tracked him into the library and saw him take a huge thick black book, half as tall as himself, out of a bookcase, and sit down and read it. The name of the book was Polexander.