russian fairy tales

... Grimms’ Fairy Tales The Brothers Grimm This eBook was designed and published ... members) To download this full book, simply select the format you desire below Grimms’ Fairy Tales 8 of 444 but she wept still more and more, and fell at his feet, till at last he consented; ... hand to take leave of them; but shake hands with the princess las...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 17:33

... these texts are all traditional, literary tales. So, Approaching Writing Skills through Fairy Tales Silvia Bruti University of Pisa, Italy Why Fairy Tales? When I was asked to choose a topic for ... smoothing the proceeding of the action. So content is rarely fairy- tale like in itself, but it becomes so when it is framed within the fairy tale architecture. Audience and R...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:10

... with her sweetheart Roland. ‘That shall not help you,’ cried she, ‘even if you have got a long way off, you shall still not escape me.’ She put on her many-league boots, in SWEETHEART ROLAND ... faithful to her sweetheart Roland, although he had deserted her. Nevertheless, she promised not to go away, but to continue keeping house for the shepherd. And now the time drew near...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 17:15

... over?’ said Chanticleer. Then said a straw, ‘I will lay myself THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET (PART 2) 2. HOW CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET WENT TO VIST MR KORBES Another day, Chanticleer ... Chanticleer and Partlet wished to ride out together; so Chanticleer built a handsome carriage with four red wheels, and harnessed six mice to it; and t...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 06:15

... THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET (PART 1) 1. HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS The nuts are quite ripe now,’ said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, ‘suppose ... nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home. ‘That’s a good joke!’ said Chanticlee...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 07:15

... came in and wanted to serve up the dinner, but he could nowhere see the cook. In his alarm and flurry, he THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, ... and to remain with one another. So now the bird set the table, and the mouse looked after the food and, wishing to prepare it in the same way as...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 07:15

... said the fish. ‘Ah!’ said the fisherman, ‘my wife wants to be pope.’ ‘Go home,’ said the fish; ‘she is pope already.’ THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE There was once a fisherman who lived with his ... to the shore the wind was raging and the sea was tossed up and down in boiling waves, and the ships were in trouble, and rolled fearfully upon the tops...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 05:15

... this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards the ... to me?’ said the miller. ‘Why not?’ answered the peasant: ‘but he only says four things, THE OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDSON There was once a very old man, whose eyes...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 05:15

... laid them on a plate, and when she saw the old man coming, she said to the boy: ‘Lie down in your bed, and draw the clothes over you.’ Then the wicked wretch came in and said: ‘Where are the ... as he could possibly use at the royal table. So he summoned all the huntsmen together, and bade them go out into the forest with him. And he went with them and made them form a gre...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 05:15

... out of the village, and no one has seen her since. CLEVER ELSIE There was once a man who had a daughter who was called Clever Elsie. And when she had grown up her father said: ‘We will ... When they were sitting at dinner and had eaten, the mother said: Elsie, go into the cellar and fetch some beer.’ Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 12:15

... still her master did not come, Gretel looked at the other and said: ‘What one is, the other should be likewise, CLEVER GRETEL There was once a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red ... that the master one day said to her: Gretel, there is a guest coming this evening; prepare me two fowls very daintily.’ ‘I will see to it, master,’ answered Gretel. She killed two fowls, sc...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 12:15

... had eaten the honey. Then came the queen of the bees, who had been saved by the little dwarf from the fire, and she tried the lips of all three; but at last she sat upon the lips of the one ... tree, and there was so much honey that it ran down the trunk; and the two brothers wanted to light a fire under the tree and kill the bees, so as to get their honey. But...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 12:15

... but the finger sprang into the air and fell behind the great cask into my lap. And here is the finger with the ring.’ and with these words the bride drew forth the finger and shewed it to the ... easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there. The ro...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 12:15

Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2014, 15:21

... r ^ EUSSIAN FAIRY TALES. RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES SELECTED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE SKAZKI OF POLEVOI BY R. NISBET BAIN ILLUSTRATED BY 0. ... to replace the irreparably deteriorated original 1997 PBEFACE. THE existence of the Russian Skazld or Mdrchen was first made generally known to the British Public some twenty years ago by Mr. W. R. S. Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. That ex...

Ngày tải lên: 12/11/2014, 16:24