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The Violet Fairy Book
| Author: | Lang, Andrew
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| Language: | English | |
| Number of downloads: | 22 | |
| Number of readers who love this book: | 1 | |
| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/641 | |
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From the foreword: "There are some familiar themes among the stories. A number are from Slavic folk literature and several are from the Japanese... There is one story here from Portugal-'The Prince Who Wanted to See the World.' In the Tale called 'The Frog' we find an Italian variant of the French folktale told by Madame d'Aulnoy called 'The White Cat.' They tell it in Finland, too, and they... Show all...
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... After a while, he determined to take the risk, and strode back to the sleeping giant. 'Wake up, my brave man!' he cried, giving him a shake.The giant woke and stretched out his hand to pick up Petru, just as we should catch a fly. But Petru played on his flute, and the giant fell back again. Petru tried this three times, and when he was satisfied that the giant was really in his power he took out a handkerchief, bound the two little fingers of the giant together, drew his sword, and cried for the fourth time, 'Wake up, my brave man....