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The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book

The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book

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Number of Chapters: 24

Length: 7 hours and 39 minutes

Language: English

"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch and the ogre; and please don't have any moral, only let everybody 'live in peace and die in a pot of grease,' at the end of it." "To be sure, we know most of mamma's stories by heart," said the sage elder of nine. "If she could only make up some new ones that aren't in any of our books! Or else, mamma, tell us something you heard a little bit of, long, long ago, from your nurse, and then make up the rest. But whatever one you tell, we'll be sure to like it anyhow." The stories told, the mother fell to musing, and the result is the little book here presented to the judgment of children other than her own—a few new fairy tales, on the old, old pattern! (Summary by Constance Cary Harrison (in her Introduction)).

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00 - Fairy Days and Introduction (Carol Box)
01 - The Princess Eglantine (Carol Box)
02 - Dame Martha's Step-daughter (Carol Box)
03 - The Adventures of Ha'penny (Carol Box)
04 - Sybilla, Myrtillo and Furioso (Carol Box)
05 - The Magic Coffee-Mill (Carol Box)
06 - The Little White Mouse (Carol Box)
07 - The Fairies and the Fiddler (Carol Box)
08 - The Ice King's Bride (Carol Box)
09 - Deep-Sea Violets (Carol Box)
10 - The Wild Woodsman (Carol Box)
11 - The Frozen Hearth-Fairy (Carol Box)
12 - Rosy's Stay-at-Home Party (Carol Box)
13 - The Turkey Queen (Carol Box)
14 - Timid Agnes (Carol Box)
15 - The Ogress and the Cook (Carol Box)
16 - Miss Peggy and the Frog (Carol Box)
17 - The Leperhaun:A Legend of the Emerald Isle (Carol Box)
18 - The Trials of Sir Isumbras (Carol Box)
19 - Bisclaveret (Carol Box)
20 - Roswal and Lilian (Carol Box)
21 - Eliduc and Guilliadun (Carol Box)
22 - The Falcon-King (Carol Box)
23 - Sir Eglamour and Crystabell (Carol Box)
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