Accounts of elfin mounds and fairy hills abound here. So do fables of little men and treasures of gold, fairy servants, and spirits of water, forest, and meadow. More appealing than ever, nearly 50 charming fairy tales and fantasies--gathered from Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, China, and other faraway places and retold by a skilled storyteller--will ...
Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrative poems, that will make the heart beat faster and the pulse-bound. They offer a feast of good things - romances, hero-tales, fairy legends, and adventures of knights and lovely damsels. They sing of proud and wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of laidley worms, witches, mermaids with golden combs, ...
"The Red Indian Fairy Book" was originally published in 1917. This edition contains all sixty-four of the original stories and all seventeen of the original illustrations and the original color plate (used on the cover). Of special interest to storytellers is the included extensive subject index, expanded for this edition. *** This collection was ...
Accounts of elfin mounds and fairy hills abound here. So do fables of little men and treasures of gold, fairy servants, and spirits of water, forest, and meadow. More appealing than ever, nearly 50 charming fairy tales and fantasies--gathered from Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, China, and other faraway places and retold by a skilled storyteller--will ...
Frances Jenkins Olcott was a 20th century writer of children's stories. This collection brings together myths, legends, tales, and historical stories suitable to holiday occasions. There are 120 stories covering topics for 17 different holidays. "Among the men and books contributing to these pages are the Gesta Romanorum, Il Libro d'Oro, Xenophon, ...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III CHILDREN'S INTERESTS " See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself, 'with newly-learned an; ...
A choice collection of Native American myths and legends carefully selected from many sources. Most are nature stories telling about birds, beasts, flowers, and rocks of our American meadows, prairies, and forests. The tales are arranged according to the seasons with several stories offered for each month of the year. There are some for early ...
His honesty was strongly illustrated by the way he kept his accounts with his law-partner. When he had taken a fee in the latter's absence, he put one half of it into his own pocket, and laid the other half carefully away, labeling it Billy, '' the name by which he familiarly addressed his partner. When asked why he did not make a record of the ...
Collection of some of the greatest short stories, with works by authors including Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles W. Moore, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mary Austin, Ralph Connor, Washington Irving, the Brothers Grimm, and many many others.
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The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People
