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3) Thumbelina
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After being kidnapped by a toad, a beautiful girl no bigger than a thumb has many adventures and makes many animal friends before meeting the perfect mate just her size.
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Discover England's own unique heritage of fairy tales and legends, rich with supernatural beings, enchanted lands and fantastical happenings. This unforgettable collection of fifteen classic stories tells of giants, dragons, fairies, witches and strange enchantments, aalongside legendary heroes such as King Arthur's knights and Robin Hood. Each story is linked with a specific place or county in England: Dragon Castle from Northumberland, Jack the...
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""A splendid modern work...What baroque dreams, grotesque scenes, ghostly, ridiculous, strange, and chilling brainstorms!... All of this is remarkable, original, and uncanny... I recommend that readers go and find some good time to spend with this beautiful book."--Thomas Mann." ""Flirting with aestheticism and exoticism, Bela Balazs's fairy tales draw their power from an oracular voice that traces paths of desire, dread, rapture, and sorrow, A master...
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Like Sleeping Beauty awakening from her 100-year slumber, these childhood favorites arise fresh and blooming every time they're read. This new compilation of some of the world's greatest fairy tales abounds in timeless stories of the struggle of good against evil, bravery in the face of overwhelming danger, and virtue rewarded with everlasting love. Told to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm almost two centuries ago by European storytellers, the tales possess...
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