Bedtime Stories

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,…

The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child. This child was a daughter, who was very beautiful; and her mother…

There was once upon a time an old king who was ill and thought to himself 'I am lying on what must be my deathbed.' Then said he 'tell faithful…