The sleeping beauty and other fairy tales from the old French

She sprang up, and started to make a tour of discovery through the many rooms of the palace. They were even grander than she had expected. The first she entered was lined with m...

Following this, he found himself in an avenue of trees, at the entrance of which he halted and rubbed his eyes. For no snow had fallen in this avenue, and the trees were tall or...

_Fatima_, meanwhile, was not in the least amused by the sight of all these riches, being consumed by a curiosity even more ardent than that of her friends. Indeed, she could sca...

Next she said: 'Go to the end of the garden; and there in the corner of the wall behind the watering-pot, unless I am mistaken, you will find six lizards. Bring them to me.'

Once upon a time I found myself halting between two projects, both magnificent. For the first, indeed--which was to discover, digest and edit all the fairy tales in the world--I...

So this is what she did. She touched with her wand everything and everybody in the palace: the _King_, the _Queen_; the ministers and privy councillors; the archbishop (who was...

'I can only give you the same counsel that, by your own admission, you are always receiving from these phantoms of your dreams. "Do not trust to appearance," they say, and "Be g...