Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Fairy Tales of All Times and of All Authors

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Synopsis
In this collection of fairy tales, the editor, Hamilton Wright Mabie, has chosen those stories that stimulate the imagination and help the adult to enter into the child's imaginary world as well as to give children an opportunity to read classic stories that are part of humanities, cultural heritage. As the editor explains in his introduction: "The fairy tale belongs to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. In ultimate importance it outranks the arithmetic, the grammar, the geography, the manuals of science; for without the aid of the imagination none of these books is really comprehensible." The stories in this collection are the following: "One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes," "The Magic Mirror," "The Enchanted Stag," "Hansel and Grethel," "The Story of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp," "The History of Ali Baba, and of the Forty Robbers Killed by One Slave," "The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor," "The White Cat," "The Golden Goose," "The Twelve Brothers," "The Fair One with the Golden Locks," Tom Thumb," "Blue Beard," "Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper," "Puss in Boots," "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood," "Jack and the Bean-stalk," "Jack the Giant Killer," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Three Bears," "The Princess on the Pea," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Light Princess," and "Beauty and the Beast."
Copyright:
1995

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
370 Pages
Publisher:
Doubleday, Page & Company
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Doubleday, Page & Company
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Barbara Baker
Proofread By:
Barbara Baker
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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