The Green Fairy Book. Various

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      The Green Fairy Book

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664189486

Table of Contents

       THE BLUE BIRD

       THE HALF-CHICK

       THE STORY OF CALIPH STORK

       THE ENCHANTED WATCH

       ROSANELLA

       SYLVAIN AND JOCOSA

       FAIRY GIFTS

       PRINCE NARCISSUS AND THE PRINCESS POTENTILLA

       PRINCE FEATHERHEAD AND THE PRINCESS CELANDINE

       THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

       HEART OF ICE

       THE ENCHANTED RING

       THE SNUFF-BOX

       THE GOLDEN BLACKBIRD

       THE LITTLE SOLDIER

       THE MAGIC SWAN

       THE DIRTY SHEPHERDESS

       THE ENCHANTED SNAKE

       THE BITER BIT

       KING KOJATA (From the Russian)

       PRINCE FICKLE AND FAIR HELENA (From the German)

       PUDDOCKY (From the German)

       THE STORY OF HOK LEE AND THE DWARFS

       THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS

       PRINCE VIVIEN AND THE PRINCESS PLACIDA

       LITTLE ONE-EYE, LITTLE TWO-EYES, AND LITTLE THREE-EYES

       JORINDE AND JORINGEL

       ALLERLEIRAUH; OR, THE MANY-FURRED CREATURE

       THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN

       SPINDLE, SHUTTLE, AND NEEDLE

       THE CRYSTAL COFFIN

       THE THREE SNAKE-LEAVES

       THE RIDDLE

       JACK MY HEDGEHOG

       THE GOLDEN LADS

       THE WHITE SNAKE

       THE STORY OF A CLEVER TAILOR

       THE GOLDEN MERMAID

       THE WAR OF THE WOLF AND THE FOX

       THE STORY OF THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE

       THE THREE MUSICIANS

       THE THREE DOGS

THE BLUE BIRD

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      Once upon a time there lived a King who was immensely rich. He had broad lands, and sacks overflowing with gold and silver; but he did not care a bit for all his riches, because the Queen, his wife, was dead. He shut himself up in a little room and knocked his head against the walls for grief, until his courtiers were really afraid that he would hurt himself. So they hung feather-beds between the tapestry and the walls, and then he could go on knocking his head as long as it was any consolation to him without coming to much harm. All his subjects came to see him, and said whatever they thought would comfort him: some were grave, even gloomy with him; and some agreeable, even gay; but not one could make the least impression upon him. Indeed, he hardly seemed to hear what they said. At last came a lady who was wrapped in a black mantle, and seemed to be in the deepest grief. She wept and sobbed until even the King’s attention was attracted; and when she said that, far from coming to try and diminish his grief, she, who had just lost a good husband, was come to add her tears to his, since she knew what he must be feeling, the King redoubled his lamentations. Then he told the sorrowful lady long stories about the good qualities of his departed Queen, and she in her turn recounted all the virtues of her departed husband; and this passed the time so agreeably that the King quite forgot to thump his head against the feather-beds, and the lady did not need to wipe the tears from her great blue eyes as often as before. By