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Classic Children's Stories and Fairy Tales
Hans
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Table of Contents
THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES.............................................................................................3
THE SWINEHERD.........................................................................................................................6
THE REAL PRINCESS...................................................................................................................9
THE SHOES OF FORTUNE........................................................................................................10
I. A Beginning...........................................................................................................................10
II. What Happened to the Councillor........................................................................................11
III. The Watchman’s Adventure...............................................................................................14
IV. A Moment of Head Importance—An Evening’s “Dramatic Readings”—A Most Strange
Journey......................................................................................................................................18
V. Metamorphosis of the Copying-Clerk..................................................................................21
VI. The Best That the Galoshes Gave.......................................................................................25
THE FIR TREE.............................................................................................................................28
THE SNOW QUEEN....................................................................................................................33
FIRST STORY. Which Treats of a Mirror and of the Splinters...............................................33
SECOND STORY. A Little Boy and a Little Girl....................................................................33
THIRD STORY. Of the Flower-Garden At the Old Woman’s Who Understood Witchcraft..36
FOURTH STORY. The Prince and Princess............................................................................40
FIFTH STORY. The Little Robber Maiden..............................................................................43
SIXTH STORY. The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman.............................................45
SEVENTH STORY. What Took Place in the Palace of the Snow Queen, and what Happened
Afterward..................................................................................................................................47
THE LEAP-FROG.........................................................................................................................49
THE ELDERBUSH.......................................................................................................................51
THE BELL.....................................................................................................................................56
THE OLD HOUSE........................................................................................................................59
THE HAPPY FAMILY.................................................................................................................64
THE STORY OF A MOTHER......................................................................................................66
THE FALSE COLLAR.................................................................................................................68
THE SHADOW.............................................................................................................................71
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL.......................................................................................................78
THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK..................................................................................................80
THE NAUGHTY BOY.................................................................................................................82
THE RED SHOES.........................................................................................................................84
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