The King of the Golden River (Illustrated) E-Book

John Ruskin

• Herausgeber: e-artnow
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

The richness of the Treasure Valley, high in the mountains of Stiria is lost through the evil of the owners, the two elder "Black Brothers", Hans and Schwartz, who in their foolishness mistreat Southwest Wind, Esquire, who in turn floods their valley, washing away their "liquid assets", and turning their valley into a dead valley of red sand. Forced into a trade other than farming, Hans and Schwartz become goldsmiths. They cruelly melt their younger brother Gluck's prize heirloom, a golden mug. This action releases the King of the Golden River for Gluck to pour out of the crucible as a finely dressed little golden dwarf. The dwarfish king offers a proposition to brothers: if someone were to climb up to the source of the Golden River high in the mountains and throw into it at least three drops of "holy water", it would become, for that person only, a river of gold. That person must do it on his first and only attempt or be overwhelmed by the river to become a black stone.

Leseprobe

John Ruskin

The King of the Golden River (Illustrated)

Legend of Stiria – A Fairy Tale

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ISBN  978-80-268-9923-5

Table of Contents

Chapter I How the Agricultural System of the Black Brothers was interfered with by Southwest Wind, Esquire

Chapter II Of the Proceedings of the Three Brothers after the Visit of Southwest Wind, Esquire; and how Little Gluck had an Interview with the King of the Golden River

Chapter III How Mr. Hans set off on an Expedition to the Golden River, and how he prospered therein

Chapter IV How Mr. Schwartz set off on an Expedition to the Golden River, and how he prospered therein

Chapter V How Little Gluck set off on an Expedition to the Golden River, and how he prospered therein, with other matters of interest

Chapter I How the Agricultural System of the Black Brothers was interfered with by Southwest Wind, Esquire

Table of Contents

In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was in old time a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It was surrounded on all sides by steep and rocky mountains rising into peaks which were always covered with snow and from which a number of torrents descended in constant cataracts. One of these fell westward over the face of a crag so high that when the sun had set to everything else, and all below was darkness, his beams still shone full upon this waterfall, so that it looked like a shower of gold. It was therefore called by the people of the neighborhood the Golden River. It was strange that none of these streams fell into the valley itself. They all descended on the other side of the mountains and wound away through broad plains and by populous cities. But the clouds were drawn so constantly to the snowy hills, and rested so softly in the circular hollow, that in time of drought and heat, when all the country round was burned up, there was still rain in the little valley; and its crops were so heavy, and its hay so high, and its apples so red, and its grapes so blue, and its wine so rich, and its honey so sweet, that it was a marvel to everyone who beheld it and was commonly called the Treasure Valley.