Wild Swans and Other Tales

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• Publisher: Sovereign
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781909438484
• Edition: 0

The Wild Swans is one of the eighteen stories featured in this timeless collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The story tells of a faraway kingdom where lives a widowed King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away. The queen then tries to bewitch their 15-year old sister Elisa.

Table of contents

• THE WILD SWANS
• THE NIGHTINGALE
• THE OLD CHURCH BELL
• THE OLD GRAVE-STONE
• WHAT THE OLD MAN DOES IS ALWAYS RIGHT
• THE OLD STREET LAMP
• LITTLE TINY OR THUMBELINA
• THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE
• THE PHOENIX BIRD
• THE PORTUGUESE DUCK
• THE PORTER’S SON
• POULTRY MEG’S FAMILY
• THE SNOW MAN
• THE SNOWDROP
• THE SUNBEAM AND THE CAPTIVE
• THE SWAN’S NEST
• THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER
• THE TINDER-BOX