WONDER TALES FROM MANY LANDS - 19 children's stories from around the world E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Herein are 19 folk and fairy tales gathered from around the world, illustrated and retold by Katharine Pyle. You will find tales from ancient Bohemia, Norse, France, Germany, Hindu, American Indian, Russia and more.

Included are children’s classics like the Three Billy Goats Gruff, Dapplegrim and even a Russian Baba Yaga tale. While some of the titles maybe less familiar, you will find the tales, like Princess Rosetta and The Crow Peri, are of superior quality and were the favourites of Victorian and Edwardian children.

The stories in this volume are:
LONG, BROAD, AND SHARPSIGHT - Bohemia
THE DWARF WITH THE GOLDEN BEARD - Slavonic
THE GREAT WHITE BEAR AND THE TROLLS - Norse
THE STORY OF THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF - Norse
THE STONES OF PLOUVINEC - Brittany
THE KING OF THE BUFFALOES - American Indian
THE JACKAL AND THE ALLIGATOR - Hindu
THE BABA YAGA - Russia
TAMLANE - A Story From An Old Scotch Ballad
THE FARMER AND THE PIXY - English
RABBIT’S EYES – Korea
MUDJEE MONEDO - American Indian
DAPPLEGRIM - Norse
THE FISH PRINCE - Hindu
THE MAGIC RICE KETTLE - Korean
THE CROW PERI - Persian
 THE FOUR WISHES - German
WHY THE ANIMALS NO LONGER FEAR SHEEP - French Creole
PRINCESS ROSETTA – French

NOTE: The publisher has included a number of extra illustrations, not done by Katherine Pyle, to the Norse story of Dapplegrim, which add to the 8 colour plates done by Katherine Pyle.
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About the Compiler and Illustrator
Katharine Pyle (November 23, 1863 – February 19, 1938) was an American artist, poet, and children's writer.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, the youngest offspring of William Pyle and Margaret Painter, she was the sister of author and artist Howard Pyle. She was educated at the Women's Industrial School and the Drexel Institute, then studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York Art Students' League. She lived in Wilmington her whole life, except four years in New York during the 1890s.
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Leseprobe

Wonder Tales From Many Lands

Written And Illustrated ByKatharine Pyle

Originally Published by

George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London[1920]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2018]

Wonder Tales from Many Lands

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

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2018

ISBN: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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Baba Yaga Seizes Peter

Contents

Long, Broad, And Sharpsight - Bohemia

The Dwarf With The Golden Beard - Slavonic

The Great White Bear And The Trolls - Norse

The Story Of The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Norse

The Stones Of Plouvinec - Brittany

The King Of The Buffaloes - American Indian

The Jackal And The Alligator - Hindu

The Baba Yaga - Russia

Tamlane - A Story From An Old Scotch Ballad

The Farmer And The Pixy - English

Rabbit’s Eyes – Korea

Mudjee Monedo - American Indian

Dapplegrim - Norse

The Fish Prince - Hindu

The Magic Rice Kettle - Korean

The Crow Peri - Persian

The Four Wishes - German

Why The Animals No Longer Fear Sheep - French Creole

Princess Rosetta - French

Illustrations

The Baba Yaga and Peter - FrontispieceThere was a great black raven in the room with themHe spoke to her in the softest voice he could manageThen it was a swan that beat its wings in her face“Not so fast, my fine little fellow,” he saidShe managed to throw the third stone at him“Do not be afraid, my child,” said the nixie to MatildaThe mattress upon which she lay had floated on and on

Wonder Tales From Many Lands

Long, Broad, And Sharpsight

A STORY FROM BOHEMIA

THERE was once a King who had one only son, and him he loved better than anything in the whole world—better even than his own life. The King’s greatest desire was to see his son married, but though the Prince had travelled in many lands, and had seen many noble and beautiful ladies, there was not one among them all whom he wished to have for a wife.

One day the King called his son to him and said, “My son, for a long time now I have hoped to see you choose a bride, but you have desired no one. Take now this silver key. Go to the top of the castle, and there you will see a steel door. This key will unlock it. Open the door and enter. Look carefully at everything in the room, and then return and tell me what you have seen. But, whatever you do, do not touch nor draw aside the curtain that hangs at the right of the door. If you should disobey me and do this thing, you will suffer the greatest dangers, and may even pay for it with your life.”

The Prince wondered greatly at his father’s words, but he took the key and went to the top of the castle, and there he found the steel door his father had described. He unlocked it with the silver key, stepped inside, and looked about him. When he had done so, he was filled with amazement at what he saw. The room had twelve sides, and on eleven of these sides were pictures of eleven princesses more beautiful than any the Prince had ever seen in all his life before. Moreover, these pictures were as though they were alive. When the Prince looked at them, they moved and smiled and blushed and beckoned to him. He went from one to the other, and they were so beautiful that each one he looked upon seemed lovelier than the last. But lovely though they were, there was not one of them whom the Prince wished to have for a wife.

Last of all, the Prince came to the twelfth side of the room, and it was covered over with a curtain, and the curtain was of velvet richly embroidered with gold and precious stones. The Prince stood before it and looked at it and looked at it. He tried to peer under its edges, but he could see nothing; never in all his life had he longed for anything as he longed to lift that curtain and see what was behind it.