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Selected Fairy Tales

In one of the large and rich cities of China, there once lived a tailor named Mustapha. He was very poor. He could hardly, by his daily labour, maintain himself and his family, which consisted only of his wife and a son. His son, who was called Aladdin, was a very careless and idle fellow. He was disobedient to his father and mother, and would go out early in the morning and stay out all day, playing in the streets and public places with idle children of his own age. When he was old enough to learn a trade, his father took him into his own shop, and taught him how to use his needle; but all his father's endeavours to keep him to his work were vain, for no sooner was his back turned, than he was gone for that day, Mustapha chastised him, but Aladdin was incorrigible, and his father, to his great grief, was forced to abandon him to his idleness; and was so much troubled about him, that he fell sick and died in a few months. Aladdin, who was now no longer restrained by the fear of a father,…

El beso de Badra

Diana Amiama

Elisa escribe teatro y asiste al estreno de una de sus obras en EspaÃ±a, invitada por la compaÃ±Ãa. El viaje es motivo para recorrer, descansar, recordar. A lo largo del relato cambian los lugares geogrÃ¡ficos y la cronologÃa se altera. Los hechos pasados, yuxtapuestos y alternando con el presente derivan hacia las historias de personajes periféricos, mÃnimamente vinculados con Elisa, pero profundamente ligados a su destino. Las reflexiones de Elisa sobre el mundo y la vida son permanentes y contribuyen a colorear la trama de alegrÃas, complicidades y desencuentros en el amor, en los idearios polÃticos y en el azar de las cosas. Nada es lineal y la condiciÃ³n humana obra en el tiempo.

The Count of Monte Cristo (Mermaids Classics)

Александр Дюма

The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (pÃ¨re) (1802-1870) who also wrote the famous classic "The Three Musketeers". Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format. All of the Mermaids Classics epublications are reproductions of classic antique books that were originally published in print format, mostly over a century ago and are now republished in digital format as ebooks. Begin to build your collection of digital books by looking for more literary gems from Mermaids Classics.

Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper

Henry W. Hewet

HERE once lived a gentleman and his wife, who were the parents of a lovely little daughter. When this child was only nine years of age, her mother fell sick. Finding her death coming on, she called her child to her and said to her, "My child, always be good; bear every thing that happens to you with patience, and whatever evil and troubles you may suffer, you will be happy in the end if you are so." Then the poor lady died, and her daughter was full of great grief at the loss of a mother so good and kind. The father too was unhappy, but he sought to get rid of his sorrow by marrying another wife, and he looked out for some prudent lady who might be a second mother to his child, and a companion to himself. His choice fell on a widow lady, of a proud and tyrannical temper, who had two daughters by a former marriage, both as haughty and bad-tempered as their mother. No sooner was the wedding over,…

The Milkmaid

Randolph Caldecott

"Where are you going, my Pretty Maid?" "I'm going a-milking, Sir," she said. "Shall I go with you, my Pretty Maid?" "Oh yes, if you please, kind Sir," she said. "What is your Father, my Pretty Maid?" "My Father's a Farmer, Sir," she said. "Shall I marry you, my Pretty Maid?" "Oh thank you, kindly, Sir," she said. "But what is your fortune, my pretty Maid?" "My face is my fortune, Sir," she said. ........

The Farmer's Boy

Randolph Caldecott

When I was a farmer, a Farmer's Boy, I used to keep my master's HORSES, With a Gee-wo here, and a Gee-wo there, And here a Gee, and there a Gee, And everywhere a Gee; Says I, My pretty lass, will you come to the banks of the Aire oh? When I was a farmer, a Farmer's Boy, I used to keep my master's LAMBS, With a Baa-baa here, and a Baa-baa there, And here a Baa, and there a Baa, And everywhere a Baa; With a Gee-wo here, and a Gee-wo there, And here a Gee, and there a Gee, And everywhere a Gee; Says I, My pretty lass, will you come to the banks of the Aire oh? When I was a farmer, a Farmer's Boy, I used to keep my master's HENS, With a Chuck-chuck here, and a Chuck-chuck there, And here a Chuck, and there a Chuck, And everywhere a Chuck; With a Baa-baa here, and a Baa-baa there, When I was a farmer, a Farmer's Boy, I used to keep my master's HORSES, With a Gee-wo here, and a Gee-wo there,

Indian Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs

The Bodhisatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane; now Brahmadatta was at that time reigning in Benares. Now it chanced that as a lion was eating meat a bone stuck in his throat. The throat became swollen, he could not take food, his suffering was terrible. The crane seeing him, as he was perched on a tree looking for food, asked, "What ails thee, friend?" He told him why. "I could free thee from that bone, friend, but dare not enter thy mouth for fear thou mightest eat me." "Don't be afraid, friend, I'll not eat thee; only save my life." "Very well," says he, and caused him to lie down on his left side. But thinking to himself, "Who knows what this fellow will do," he placed a small stick upright between his two jaws that he could not close his mouth, and inserting his head inside his mouth struck one end of the bone with his beak. Whereupon the bone dropped and fell out.

Walker on Water

Kristiina Ehin

A woman cultivates a knack for walking on water, but is undermined by her husband's brain, which he removes each night when he returns home from work; a couple overcomes the irksome mischief of the gods; a skeptical dragon wonders what sex is all about: this is the world of Kristiina Ehin. From the 2007 British Poetry Society Popescu prize winner for European poetry in translation: a series of comic, surreal adventures. Kristiina Ehin's quirky voice takes each story directly from the dream state, at times stubborn and resistant, at other times masochistically compliant. Ehin offers up modern folktales in which the very nature of our human identity is at stake-rampant with images and archetypes both new and old, and mediated by the abrupt changes we can only experience in dreams. KRISTIINA EHIN is a highly acclaimed performer of her poetry, prose and drama in Estonian as well as English. This is her first book of stories to be published in the U.S. In her native Estonia, she has published six volumes of poetry, three books of short stories and a retelling of South-Estonian folk tales. She has written plays, as well as poetic radio broadcasts. She has won Estonia's most prestigious poetry prize for Kaitseala-a book of poems and journal entries written during a year spent living as a nature reserve warden on an otherwise uninhabited island off Estonia's north coast. In the UK, she has published six translated books of poetry and three of prose.

Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway

Snorri Sturluson

Written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson sometime around 1230 AD, the «Heimskringla» is one of the best known of all sagas. It is in actuality a collection of sagas concerning the various rulers of Norway, from about A.D. 850 to the year A.D. 1177. While scholars and historians continue to debate the historical accuracy of Sturluson's work, the «Heimskringla» is still considered an important original source for information on the Viking Age, a period which Sturluson covers almost in its entirety. Contained within this work are the following individual sagas: Halfdan the Black Saga, Harald Harfager's Saga, Hakon the Good's Saga, Saga of King Harald Grafeld and of Earl Hakon Son of Sigurd, King Olaf Trygvason's Saga, Saga of Olaf Haraldson (St. Olaf), Saga of Magnus the Good, Saga of Harald Hardrade, Saga of Olaf Kyrre, Magnus Barefoot's Saga, Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf, Saga of Magnus the Blind and of Harald Gille, Saga of Sigurd, Inge, and Eystein, the Sons of Harald, Saga of Hakon Herdebreid («Hakon the Broad-Shouldered»), and Magnus Erlingson's Saga.

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen having delighted readers young and old for decades. Collected here are some of his most love tales. This collection includes the following tales: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Swineherd, The Real Princess, The Shoes of Fortune, The Fir Tree, The Snow Queen, The Leap-Frog, The Elderbush, The Bell, The Old House, The Happy Family, The Story of a Mother, The False Collar, The Shadow, The Little Match Girl, The Dream of Little Tuk, The Naughty Boy, and The Red Shoes.