Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know - Couverture rigide

Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0554364123 ISBN 13 : 9780554364124

Editeur : BiblioLife, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The fairy tale is a poetic recording of the facts of life, an interpretation by the imagination of its hard conditions, an effort to reconcile the spirit which loves freedom and goodness and beauty with its harsh, bare and disappointing conditions. It is, in its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs of the imagination, the cravings of the heart. It involves a free, poetic dealing with realities in accordance with the law of mental growth; it is the naïve activity of the young imagination of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact.

This collection of tales, gathered from the rich literature of the childhood of the world, or from the books of the few modern men who have found the key of that wonderful world, is put forth not only without apology, but with the hope that it may widen the demand for these charming reports of a world in which the truths of our working world are loyally upheld, while its hard facts are quietly but authoritatively dismissed from attention.

The modern child passes through the same stages as did the children of four thousand years ago. He, too, is a poet. He believes that the world about him throbs with life and is peopled with all manner of strange, beautiful, powerful folk, who live just outside the range of his sight; he, too, personifies light and heat and storm and wind and cold as his remote ancestors did. He, too, lives in and through his imagination; and if, in later life, he grows in power and becomes a creative man, his achievements are the fruits of the free and vigorous life of his imagination.

The fairy tale belongs to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. In ultimate importance it outranks the arithmetic, the grammar, the geography, the manuals of science; for without the aid of the imagination none of these books is really comprehensible.

INTRODUCTION

ONE EYE, TWO EYES, THREE EYES (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE MAGIC MIRROR (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE ENCHANTED STAG (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

HANSEL AND GRETHEL (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP ("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")

THE HISTORY OF ALI BABA, AND OF THE FORTY ROBBERS KILLED BY ONE SLAVE ("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")

THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR ("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")

THE WHITE CAT (From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)

THE GOLDEN GOOSE (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE TWELVE BROTHERS (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS (From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)

TOM THUMB (First written in prose in 1621 by Richard Johnson)

BLUE BEARD (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

PUSS IN BOOTS (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK (Said to be an allegory of the Teutonic Al-fader, The tale written in French by Charles Perrault)

JACK THE GIANT KILLER (From the old British legend told by Geoffrey of Monmouth, of Corineus the Trojan)

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

THE THREE BEARS (Robert Southey)

THE PRINCESS ON THE PEA (From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)

THE UGLY DUCKLING (From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)

THE LIGHT PRINCESS (George MacDonald)

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (From the French tale by Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Various - The Original Classic Edition

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This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.

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The world of dead matter which our fathers thought they understood has become a world of subtle forces moving with inconceivable velocity; nothing is inert, all things are transformed into other and more elusive shapes precisely as the makers of the fairy tales foresaw and predicted; the world lives in every atom just as their world lived; forces lie just outside the range of physical sight, but entirely within the range of spiritual vision, precisely as the tellers of these old stories divined; mystery and wonder enfold all things, and not only evoke the full play of the mind, but flood it with intimations and suggestions of the presence of more elusive and subtle forces, of finer and more obedient powers, as the world of fairies, magi and demons enfolded the ancient earth of daily toil and danger.

. . . The first and second times that she did so, the sisters did not notice it; but when they found it happened every day, they said one to the other, There is something strange about little Two Eyes, she leaves her supper every day, and all that has been put for her has been wasted; she must get food somewhere else.

. . . In fact, Three Eyes was wide awake with one eye, and heard and saw all that Two Eyes did; for poor little Two Eyes, thinking she was asleep, said her speech to the goat, and the table came with all the good things on it, and was carried away when Two Eyes had eaten enough; and the cunning Three Eyes saw it all with her one eye.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: BiblioLife
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0554364123
• ISBN 13: 9780554364124
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 308