The Little Glass Man, and Other Stories

Fairy Queen sat in her office drinking afternoon tea. Fairy Queen, thinking how she could please children best, had turned publisher. She had come to London, she had taken an of...

The raftsmen also on the other side of the wood were an object of envy to him. When these giants of the forest came over in their splendid clothes, wearing about their bodies ha...

'Do not lie, Peter,' cried Michel, in a thundering voice, 'or I strike you to the ground with this pole; think you I have not seen you begging of the little one?' he added mildl...

They now went down a long way and very deep, yet, to Peter's astonishment, it did not grow darker; on the contrary, the daylight seemed rather to increase in the chasm, and it w...

But the following night Peter again heard the well-known voice whispering into his ear five or six times, 'Peter, get a warmer heart!' He felt no repentance at having killed his...

Chasid listened to the request of his servant; and seeing beneath them in the valley some ruins which promised a lodging, they flew towards it. The place where they had settled...

Outside the town he kept on running, being afraid of the old woman, until at last he was overcome by fatigue. Never in all his life had he gone so fast, nay, it seemed to him as...

That is the story which my father told me. I repented of my unworthy conduct towards the good little man, and my father remitted the other half of the punishment which was yet i...

'Why,' replied the cobbler, 'every one according to his taste; but I must tell you that if I had such a terrible nose I should have a case made for it of rose-coloured morocco....

About this time the duke had a visit from a neighbouring prince, his friend. He, therefore, ordered the dwarf to appear, and said, 'Now is the time for you to show whether you s...