An accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought. What he didn't know about wizardry was hardly worth knowing, for he possessed all the books and recipes of all the wizards who had lived before him; and, moreover, he had invented several wizardments himself. This admirable person would have been completely happy but for the numerous interruptions to his studies caused by folk who came to consult him about their troubles (in which he was not interested), and by the loud knocks of the iceman, the milkman, the baker's boy, the laundryman and the peanut woman. He never dealt with any of these people; but they rapped at his door every day to see him about this or that or to try to sell him their wares. Just when he was most deeply interested in his books or engaged in watching the bubbling of a cauldron there would come a knock at his door. And after sending the intruder away he always found he had lost his train of thought or ruined his compound. At length these interruptions aroused his anger, and he decided he must have a dog to keep people away from his door. He didn't know where to find a dog, but in the next room lived a poor glass-blower with whom he had a slight acquaintance; so he went into the man's apartment and asked:
This volume collects a series of engaging fantasy stories that follow the format of the world's best-loved fairy tales, combining imagination and adventure with valuable moral lessons.
Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales represents these tales as they have been told in the United States from Revolutionary days until the present.
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Presents fifteen fairy tales, mostly set in America, from a cowboy who stops time to a tale of a magical beetle.
Reproduction of the original: American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum
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Legends, fables, and folk stories portray the adventures of pioneers, Indians, farmers, and animals in the various regions of the United States.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Aarne, Antti, and Stith Thompson, eds. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. Translated and enlarged by Stith Thompson. ... Baer, Florence C. Sources and Analogues of the Uncle Remus Tales.
South American Fairy Tales
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