White Duck and Other Fairy Tales

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• Publisher: Sovereign
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781910343753
• Edition: 0

Once upon a time a great and powerful King married a lovely Princess. No couple were ever so happy; but before their honeymoon was over they were forced to part, for the King had to go on a warlike expedition to a far country, and leave his young wife alone at home. Bitter were the tears she shed, while her husband sought in vain to soothe her with words of comfort and counsel, warning her, above all things, never to leave the castle...

Table of contents

• THE WHITE DUCK
• THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP
• THE SIX SWANS
• THE DRAGON OF THE NORTH
• STORY OF THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
• THE GOLDEN CRAB
• THE IRON STOVE
• THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER
• THE DONKEY CABBAGE
• THE LITTLE GREEN FROG
• THE SEVEN-HEADED SERPENT
• THE GRATEFUL BEASTS
• THE GIANTS AND THE HERD-BOY
• THE INVISIBLE PRINCE
• THE CROW
• HOW SIX MEN TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIDE WORLD
• THE WIZARD KING
• THE NIXY
• THE GLASS MOUNTAIN
• ALPHEGE, OR THE GREEN MONKEY
• FAIRER-THAN-A-FAIRY
• THE THREE BROTHERS
• THE BOY AND THE WOLVES, OR THE BROKEN PROMISE
• THE GLASS AXE
• THE DEAD WIFE
• IN THE LAND OF SOULS
• THE WITCH AND HER SERVANTS
• THE MAGIC RING
• THE FLOWER QUEEN’S DAUGHTER
• THE FLYING SHIP
• THE SNOW-DAUGHTER AND THE FIRE-SON
• THE STORY OF KING FROST
• THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO
• THE WITCH
• THE HAZEL-NUT CHILD
• THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUS
• PRINCE RING
• THE SWINEHERD
• HOW TO TELL A TRUE PRINCESS
• THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
• THE TINDER-BOX
• THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT
• THUMBELINA
• THE NIGHTINGALE
• HERMOD AND HADVOR
• THE STEADFAST TIN-SOLDIER
• BLOCKHEAD-HANS
• A STORY ABOUT A DARNING-NEEDLE