The Pink Fairy Book

Abstract

Forty-one Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales collected by Andrew Lang: "The Cat's Elopement" "How the Dragon Was Tricked" "The Goblin and the Grocer" "The House in the Wood" "Urashimataro 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"