From the publisher:
Forty-one Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales: "The Snow-Queen," "The Cunning Shoemaker," "The Two Brothers," "The Merry Wives," "The Man without a Heart," and more. All the stories are narrated in the clear, lively prose for which Lang was famous and are considered to be the very best English versions available. Includes 69 illustrations.
Table of Contents:
- The Cat's Elopement
- How the Dragon was Tricked
- The Goblin and the Grocer
- The House in the Wood
- Uraschimataro and the Turtle
- The Slaying of the Tanuki
- The Flying Trunk
- The Snow Man
- The Shirt-Collar
- The Princess in the Chest
- The Three Brothers
- The Snow-queen
- The Fir-Tree
- "Hans, the Mermaid's Son"
- Peter Bull
- The Bird 'Grip'
- Snowflake
- I know what I have learned
- The Cunning Shoemaker
- The King who would have a Beautiful Wife
- Catherine and her Destiny
- How the Hermit helped to win the King's Daughter
- The Water of Life
- The Wounded Lion
- The Man without a Heart
- The Two Brothers
- Master and Pupil
- The Golden Lion
- The Spring of Rosemary
- The White Dove
- The Troll's Daughter
- Esben and the Witch
- Princess Minon-Minette
- Maiden Bright-eye
- The Merry Wives
- King Lindorm
- "The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther"
- The Little Hare
- The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue
- The Story of Ciccu
- Don Giovanni de la Fortuna
