Yearly Archives: 2022

There was once a poor woman who gave birth to a little son, and as he came into the world with a caul on, it was predicted that in his…

FIRST STORY: WHICH DESCRIBES A LOOKING-GLASS AND ITS BROKEN FRAGMENTS You must attend to the beginning of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more…

HARD by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Grethel. He had little to bite…

In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen…

There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in…

Once upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich. As he had,…

One fine day a Tailor was sitting on his bench by the window in very high spirits, sewing away most diligently, and presently up the street came a country woman,…

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw…

Once upon a time there was a poor laborer who, feeling that he had not much longer to live, wished to divide his possessions between his son and daughter, whom…

THIRD STORY THE ENCHANTED FLOWER GARDEN But how fared little Gerda in Kay's absence? What had become of him no one knew, nor could any one give the slightest information,…