Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know (Mobi Classics)

Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (18461916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer.

Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Contents:

Chapter I: One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
Chapter II: The Magic Mirror (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
Chapter III: The Enchanted Stag (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
Chapter IV: Hansel and Grethel (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
Chapter V: The Story of Aladdin; Or, the Wonderful Lamp ("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")
Chapter VI: The History of Ali Baba, and of the Forty Robbers Killed by One Slave ("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")
Chapter VII: The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor ("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")
Chapter VIII: The White Cat (From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)
Chapter IX: The Golden Goose (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
Chapter X: The Twelve Brothers(Grimm's Fairy Tales)
Chapter XI: The Fair One with the Golden Locks (From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)
Chapter XII: Tom Thumb (First written in prose in 1621 by Richard Johnson)
Chapter XIII: Blue Beard (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)
Chapter XIV: Cinderella; Or, the Little Glass Slipper (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)
Chapter XV: Puss in Boots (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)
Chapter XVI: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)
Chapter XVII: Jack and the Bean-Stalk (Said to be an allegory of the Teutonic Al-fader, The tale written in French by Charles Perrault)
Chapter XVIII: Jack the Giant Killer (From the old British legend told by Geoffrey of Monmouth, of Corineus the Trojan)
Chapter XIX: Little Red Riding Hood (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)
Chapter XX: The Three Bears (Robert Southey)
Chapter XXI: The Princess on the Pea (From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)
Chapter XXII: The Ugly Duckling (From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)
Chapter XXIII: The Light Princess (George MacDonald)
Chapter XXIV: Beauty and the Beast (From the French tale by Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve)

Dettagli