FAIRY TALES from SPAIN - 19 Illustrated Spanish Children's Stories E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

In this volume you will find 19 fairy tales and folklore from Spain plus a few from other countries brought back to Spain by sailors and travellers in the heyday of their great navy. Compiled by J. Munoz Escamez, these 19 Spanish tales are further enhanced by the eight colour plates by W. Matthews. Here you will find uniquely Spanish tales like: The City of Fortune, The Garden of Health, Carabi! Carabo!, The Author of the Wall, The Devil's Tournament, The Treasure of the Dragon, The Man with the Two Faces plus many more. Many of the old fairy tale books published over a century ago, best sellers in their time, are now in a dilapidated condition. Reading them would only ruin them further. But there is a solution! It is the aim of Abela Publishing to give these old books new life in the digital age and ensure they are kept alive for our children and our children’s children. Abela is the Zulu word for to share or distribute. As such Abela Publishing will donate 10% of the profit from the sale of this book to charities. We invite you to curl up with this unique sliver of Spanish culture not seen in print for over a century; and immerse yourself in the tales and fables of yesteryear. ---------------------------- TAGS: fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, Spanish children’s stories, Spain, bygone era, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, Khing-Chu-Fu, City of Fortune, Garden of Health, Carabi! Carabo!, Author of the Wall, Devil's Tournament, Treasure of the Dragon, Man with the Two Faces, Treachery of Micifuf, Trompetilla and Trompetin, Quack Doctor, Drawing School, Man with the Nose, Island of Brilliants, Judgment of the Flowers, Three Questions, Captain's Exploit, Topsy-Turvy World, Don Suero the Proud, Iberia, Iberian

Leseprobe

Fairy Tales From Spain

By J. MUNOZ ESCAMEZ

Edited byF. C. TILNEY

Illustrated by W. MATTHEWS

Originally published byJ. M. DENT & SONS LTD, LONDON[1913]

Resurrected byAbela Publishing, London[2017]

Fairy Tales From Spain

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-8-827551-83-7

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CONTENTS

Khing-Chu-Fu

The City of Fortune

The Garden of Health

Carabi! Carabo!

The Author of the Wall

The Devil's Tournament

The Treasure of the Dragon

The Man with the Two Faces

The Treachery of Micifuf

Trompetilla and Trompetin

The Quack Doctor

The Drawing School

The Man with the Nose

The Island of Brilliants

The Judgment of the Flowers

The Three Questions

The Captain's Exploit

The Topsy-Turvy World

Don Suero the Proud

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

He Found Himself tied by the Neck, Wings, and Feet . . . Frontispiece

"Rise, Wise Man," said the Empress sweetly

The Vulture carried Him to the other side of the abyss

She transformed Herself into a Lovely Girl

"What are You doing here, Boy?"

The Quack Doctor.

He met Two Dwarfs who were playing Marbles

Pero Gil at one Bound Approached the Statue

Khing-Chu-Fu

Khing-Chu-Fu, Empress of China, was doing her hair when her maids who, on their knees witnessed the delicate operation of artistically arranging the imperial hair of her majesty, burst into cries of admiration scarcely repressed by the etiquette of the palace.

"What is the matter?" Khing-Chu-Fu deigned to ask, turning her head.

"Ah, lady!" exclaimed the maids in a chorus. "Brahma has deigned to favour you with a sign of his protection."

"And what is that?" inquired the empress.

"A silver thread which appears amidst your beautiful hair."

"That is to say I have a white hair."

"So it is called amongst simple mortals, but in the Daughter of the Sun they are threads of silver, to which poets spontaneously sing verses under the penalty of being quartered like dogs."

"Let the seers and astrologers come at this very moment. I must know what this foretells."