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Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664624567
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
FAVORITE FAIRY TALES
CINDERELLA OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER
JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD
LITTLE RED-RIDING-HOOD
THE UGLY DUCKLING
HOP-O’-MY-THUMB
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
LITTLE SNOWDROP
THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS
SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
THE WILD SWANS
ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES
THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR
THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA, A MERCHANT OF BAGDAD
| JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK. Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie President of the New York Free Kindergarten Association. Associate Editor of The Outlook THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Shailer Mathews Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Chicago. Editor of The World To-day Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie Dr. Henry Van Dyke Author. Professor of English Literature in Princeton University LITTLE RED-RIDING-HOOD. Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Henry M. Alden THE UGLY DUCKLING. Hans Christian Andersen This Story is the Choice of: The Honorable William J. Bryan Publicist and Editor Miss Jane Addams Head Resident of Hull House, Chicago HOP-O’-MY-THUMB. This Story is the Choice of: Henry James Author |
| BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. From the French of Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve This Story is the Choice of: Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” LITTLE SNOWDROP. This Story is the Choice of: Howard Pyle Artist and Author THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS. Robert Southey This Story is the Choice of: F. A. Kendall Secretary of the Illinois Pupils’ Reading Circle SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. Grimm This Story is the Choice of: Frederick Dielman President of the National Academy of Design THE WILD SWANS. Hans Christian Andersen This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Henry Van Dyke Mrs. Alice Meynell Poet and Essayist |
| ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Charles William Eliot President of Harvard University Dr. Henry Van Dyke J. M. Pereles Dr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Author ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Samuel L. Clemens Dr. Charles William Eliot Dr. Lyman Abbott Editor of The Outlook THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Lyman Abbott THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA, A MERCHANT OF BAGDAD. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. William Dean Howells Author |
| ILLUSTRATIONSTable of Contents “CAN’T YOU RENDER ME SOME ASSISTANCE?”Frontispiece“I WILL BROIL YOU FOR MY BREAKFAST”Facing p.2THE SLIPPER FITTED EXACTLY“48JUST AS HE LAID HIS HAND UPON ONE OF THEM, THE LITTLE DOG BARKED MOST FURIOUSLY“66A YOUNG GIRL OF WONDERFUL BEAUTY LAY ASLEEP ON AN EMBROIDERED BED“82HE ASKED HER POLITELY WHERE SHE WAS GOING“88SOME LITTLE CHILDREN THREW PIECES OF BREAD INTO THE WATER“114THE CHILDREN BEGAN TO CRY AS LOUD AS THEY COULD“120SHE SAW AT HER FEET A HANDSOME, GRACEFUL YOUNG PRINCE“170“OH, HEAVEN,” THEY CRIED, “WHAT A LOVELY CHILD!”“180THE VOICE OF THE LITTLE, SMALL, WEE BEAR AWAKENED HER AT ONCE“200 |
| ELISE SAW AN ICE PALACE, WITH ONE BOLD COLONNADE BUILT ABOVE ANOTHERFacing p.238“I AM THE SLAVE OF THE RING, AND WILL OBEY THEE IN ALL THINGS”“260CASSIM FORGETS THE MAGIC WORD“294THE MERCHANTS BEGAN THEIR SHOUTING TO FRIGHTEN THE EAGLES“318THE CALIPH LISTENING TO THE CHILDREN’S COURT“342 Decorative borders by Francis I. Bennett |
| INTRODUCTIONTable of Contents |
WHAT are the best fairy stories? Are they not those which have lived most vividly in active minds? The ripeness of after life works its changes; but we are not dealing with literary judgments—rather with the choice of childhood which fortunately lingers in memory, whatever store of wisdom may come in later years. There is here no question of the new or unusual. On the contrary, it is the ideas or visions handed down for generations or centuries and set in final form that remain with us as types of fancy or wisdom. Of these there are so many that a selection is essential. No one book can be a complete treasure-house of all the imagination, humor, and sentiment of the fairy tale. But it has been possible to obtain a representative judgment for this volume which we believe to be of peculiar worth.
This book gives us the favorite fairy tales of men and women who have gained eminence in American life. It is a book, therefore, based upon an original plan, which stands by itself. Any collection formed by one person must reflect personal preferences. It must have obvious limitations, however excellent—as in the case of Miss Mulock or Laboulaye—the choice of the single editor may be. But to a large extent such a collection as this represents that consensus of opinion which invests a given work with the rank of a classic. The desire of the publishers has been to determine the youthful preferences of those whose opinions carry weight and to present their selections among the wealth of fairy tales which the world cherishes from one generation to another. Such a thing as a collection of all good fairy tales would be unthinkably cumbersome. We need guidance and selection. For the expressions of personal choice afforded in the interests of this book, the publishers desire to offer their grateful acknowledgments.
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