Fairy Tales from Around the World

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This wonderful collection contains 130 stories, beautifully illustrated that tell beautiful tales and legends around the world.Book One: The Blue Fairy Book in 1889"The Bronze Ring","Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess", "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", "The Yellow Dwarf","Little Red Riding Hood", "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood", "Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper", "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp", "The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was", "Rumpelstiltskin""Beauty and the Beast", "The Master Maid", "Why the Sea Is Salt", "The Master Cat or Puss in Boots", "Felicia and the Pot of Pinks""The White Cat","The Water-lily. The Gold-spinners", "The Terrible Head", "The Story of Pretty Goldilocks", "The History of Whittington", "The Wonderful Sheep", "Little Thumb","The Forty Thieves", "Hansel and Gretel","Snow-White and Rose-Red", "The Goose-girl","Toads and Diamonds","Prince Darling","Blue Beard","Trusty John","The Brave Little Tailor", "A Voyage to Lilliput", "The Princess on the Glass Hill", "The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou", "The History of Jack the Giant-killer", "The Black Bull of Norroway", "The Red Etin"The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)"Cat and Mouse in Partnership", "The Six Swans", "The Dragon of the North", "Story of the Emperor's New Clothes", "The Golden Crab""The Iron Stove", "The Dragon and his Grandmother", "The Donkey Cabbage", "The Little Green Frog", "The Seven-headed Serpent", "The Grateful Beasts", "The Giants and the Herd-boy", "The Invisible Prince", "The Crow", "How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World""The Wizard King", "The Nixy", "The Glass Mountain", "Alphege, or the Green Monkey","Fairer-than-a-Fairy", "The Three Brothers", "The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise", "The Glass Axe", "The Dead Wife", "In the Land of Souls", "The White Duck", "The Witch and Her Servants", "The Magic Ring", "The Flower Queen's Daughter""The Flying Ship", "The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son", "The Story of King Frost", "The Death of the Sun-hero", "The Witch""The Hazel-nut Child", "The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus", "Prince Ring", "The Swineherd", "How to tell a True Princess", "The Blue Mountains", "The Tinder-box", "The Witch in the Stone Boat""Thumbelina","The Nightingale", "Hermod and Hadvor", "The Steadfast Tin-soldier", "Blockhead Hans", "A Story about a Darning-needle".The Grey Fairy Book (1900)."Donkey Skin", "The Goblin Pony", "An Impossible Enchantment", "The Story of Dschemil and Dachemila", "Janni and the Draken","The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar", "Fortunatus and his Purse", "The Goat-faced Girl", "What came of picking Flowers", "The Story of Bensurdatu", "The Magician's Horse", "The Little Gray Man", "Herr Lazarus and the Draken", "The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles", "Udea and her Seven Brothers", "The White Wolf", "Mohammed with the Magic Finger","Bobino", "The Dog and the Sparrow", "The Story of the Three Sons of Hali", "The Story of the Fair Circassians", "The Jackal and the Spring", "The Bear", "The Sunchild", "The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch","Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox", "The Unlooked for Prince","The Simpleton""The Street Musicians", "The Twin Brothers", "Cannetella", "The Ogre""A Fairy's Blunder", "Long, Broad, and Quickeye", "Prunella"Book Four:The Arabian Nights was introduced to Europe in a French translation by Antoine Galland in 1704, and rapidly attained a unique popularity. There are even accounts of the translator being roused from sleep by bands of young men under his windows in Paris, importuning him to tell them another story

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