Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Fairy Tales, of which this is the first volume, follows without break an earlier book, Rhymes and Stories, and is made up chiefly of Märchen, or nursery tales, with a few drolls, or comic anecdotes. The term “fairy tale” has been used in its popular sense as including “tales i...
Fairy Tales, of which this is the first volume, follows without break an earlier book, Rhymes and Stories, and is made up chiefly of Märchen, or nursery tales, with a few drolls...
2. Part 2They sent for the best hairdresser to arrange their hair in the most stylish way, and bought patches for their cheeks from the most fashionable maker. They called in Cinderella...
3. Part 3“Am I come here,” said the ill-bred, saucy girl, “to serve you with water, pray? I suppose this silver tankard was brought wholly on purpose for your ladyship, was it? I should...
4. Part 4He returned to the great hall where he had had supper the night before, and found breakfast ready on a little table. He drank his chocolate, and then went out to look for his ho...
5. Part 5Hop-o’-my-Thumb heard all they had said; for when he heard, as he lay in bed, that they were talking of their affairs, he got up softly and slipped under his father’s stool, to...
6. Part 6Peronella was dancing with her companions on the fresh grass by the side of a flowing stream when the news of the Queen’s death reached her. She said to them, “How fortunate I w...
7. Part 7The King took it into his head that perhaps she did not think him handsome enough. So he thought he would bathe his face with the water from the Fountain of Beauty, which was in...