The Green Fairy BookThis book is an illustrated collection of fairy tales, translated and adapted from the French, German, Russian, Italian, Scottish and Chinese languages by British scholar and editor, Andrew Lang. |
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Page 286 - long I saw the stranger coming towards me, and leading a fine stag. I asked him where he had left my brother, and how he had got the stag, whose great eyes were overflowing with tears. Instead of answering he began to laugh, and I flew into
Page 172 - hand away. The more he howled the more the others laughed, till a girl who had been washing clothes in the neighbouring stream hurried up to see what was the matter. "When she saw the poor boy fastened to the swan she felt so sorry for him that she stretched out her hand to free him. The bird screamed.
Page 27 - Water, water!' he cried in his despair, ' do have pity upon me, and do not wet me like this.' ' Ah ! Medio Pollito,' replied the water, ' you would not help me when I was a little stream away on the fields, now you must be punished.
Page 73 - whether you love this whipper-snapper Prince or not doesn't matter in the least. You are going to marry me, so you may as well make up your mind to it; and I am going away this very minute to make all the arrangements. But in case you should get into mischief in my absence, I think I had better put
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Page 268 - The King must marry again, so that we may have a queen.' So messengers were sent far and wide to seek for a bride equal to the late Queen in beauty. But there was no one in the wide world,
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Green Fairy Book |
| Editor | Andrew Lang |
| Illustrated by | Henry Justice Ford |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 12, 2007 |
| Length | 366 pages |
| Subjects | › JUVENILE FICTION / General |
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