The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts

The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts
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Fantastic legends, myths and tales of magical creatures come alive in this meticulously edited collection by e-artnow. Content: The Dragon of the North My Father's Dragon The Reluctant Dragon The Book of Dragons The Book of Beasts Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger The Deliverers of Their Country The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told The Island of the Nine Whirlpools The Dragon Tamers The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet Beowulf The Gorgon's Head The Chimæra The Minotaur The Dragon's Teeth Mermaids The Iron Wolf The Good Sea Monster The Ogre The Troll's Hammer Jack the Giant Killer Jack and the Bean-Stalk The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor The Enchanted Horse Beauty and the Beast Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Magical Monarch of Mo The Master Key The Sea Fairies Prince Mud-Turtle The Princess and the Goblin The Princess and Curdie Lilybell and Thistledown Ripple, the Water Sprite The Brownie and the Princess Snow-White and Rose-Red Rumpelstiltskin… The Elves and the Shoemaker Puss in Boots The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs The Dragon and His Grandmother The Seven-Headed Serpent The Giants and the Herd-Boy How the Dragon Was Tricked The Goblin and the Grocer The Slaying of the Tanuki The Troll's Daughter The Goblin Pony Herr Lazarus and the Draken The History of Dwarf Long Nose The Headless Dwarfs The Prince and the Dragon The Boy who found the Pots of Gold The Bad Boy and the Leprechaun The Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker The Boggart The Sick-Bed Elves The Pixies The Brownie of Blednoch Elsa and the Ten Elves Piskey Fine! and Piskey Gay! The Fairy Wedding The Floating Prince How the Aristocrats Sailed Away (A Sequel) Huckleberry The Sprig of Holly… Hilda's Mermaid The Tell-Tale Goblin The Revenge of the Gnomes The Rain Elves The Dwarf with the Golden Beard The Great White Bear and the Trolls The King of the Buffaloes The Farmer and the Pixy…

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Andrew Lang. The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts

The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts

Table of Contents

My Father's Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett)

Chapter One. MY FATHER MEETS THE CAT

Chapter Two. MY FATHER RUNS AWAY

Chapter Three. MY FATHER FINDS THE ISLAND

Chapter Four. MY FATHER FINDS THE RIVER

Chapter Five. MY FATHER MEETS SOME TIGERS

Chapter Six. MY FATHER MEETS A RHINOCEROS

Chapter Seven. MY FATHER MEETS A LION

Chapter Eight. MY FATHER MEETS A GORILLA

Chapter Nine. MY FATHER MAKES A BRIDGE

Chapter Ten. MY FATHER FINDS THE DRAGON

The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Grahame)

The Book of Dragons (E. Nesbit):

The Book of Beasts

Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger

The Deliverers of Their Country

The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told

The Island of the Nine Whirlpools

The Dragon Tamers

The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold

Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice

Five Children and It (E. Nesbit)

Chapter I. Beautiful as the Day

Chapter II. Golden Guineas

Chapter III. Being Wanted

Chapter IV. Wings

Chapter V. No Wings

Chapter VI. A Castle and No Dinner

Chapter VII. A Siege and Bed

Chapter VIII. Bigger Than the Baker's Boy

Chapter IX. Grown Up

Chapter X. Scalps

Chapter XI (And Last) The Last Wish

The Phoenix and the Carpet (E. Nesbit)

Chapter I. The Egg

Chapter II. The Topless Tower

Chapter III. The Queen Cook

Chapter IV. Two Bazaars

Chapter V. The Temple

Chapter VI. Doing Good

Chapter VII. Mews From Persia

Chapter VIII. The Cats, the Cow, and the Burglar

Chapter IX. The Burglar’s Bride

Chapter X. The Hole in the Carpet

Chapter XI. The Beginning of the End

Chapter XII. The End of the End

Chapter XIII. May-Blossom and Pearls

Chapter XIV. The Finding of the Treasure

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

Christmas Greetings

Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole

Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears

Chapter 3. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

Chapter 4. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

Chapter 5. Advice from a Caterpillar

Chapter 6. Pig and Pepper

Chapter 7. A Mad Tea-Party

Chapter 8. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground

Chapter 9. The Mock Turtle’s Story

Chapter 10. The Lobster Quadrille

Chapter 11. Who Stole the Tarts?

Chapter 12. Alice’s Evidence

Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

Dramatis Personæ

Preface to the 1896 Edition

Chapter 1. Looking-Glass House

Chapter 2. The Garden of Live Flowers

Chapter 3. Looking-Glass Insects

Chapter 4. Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Chapter 5. Wool and Water

Chapter 6. Humpty Dumpty

Chapter 7. The Lion and the Unicorn

Chapter 8 ‘It’s my own Invention’

Chapter 9. Queen Alice

Chapter 10. Shaking

Chapter 11. Waking

Chapter 12. Which Dreamed It?

The Scarecrow of Oz (L. Frank Baum)

‘Twixt You And Me

1. The Great Whirlpool

2. The Cavern Under the Sea

3. The Ork

4. Daylight at Last

5. The Little Old Man of the Island

6. The Flight of the Midgets

7 The Bumpy Man

8. Button-Bright is Lost and Found Again

9. The Kingdom of Jinxland

10. Pon, the Gardener’s Boy

11. The Wicked King and Googly-Goo

12. The Wooden-Legged GrassHopper

13. Glinda the Good and the Scarecrow of Oz

14. The Frozen Heart

15. Trot Meets the Scarecrow

16. Pon Summons the King to Surrender

17. The Ork Rescues Button-Bright

18. The Scarecrow Meets an Enemy

19. The Conquest of the Witch

20. Queen Gloria

21. Dorothy, Betsy and Ozma

22. The Waterfall

23. The Land of Oz

24. The Royal Reception

The Magical Monarch of Mo (L. Frank Baum)

The First Surprise. THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY OF MO

The Second Surprise. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE KING'S HEAD

The Third Surprise. THE TRAMP DOG AND THE MONARCH'S LOST TEMPER

The Fourth Surprise. THE PECULIAR PAINS OF FRUITCAKE ISLAND

The Fifth Surprise. THE MONARCH CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY

The Sixth Surprise. KING SCOWLEYOW AND HIS CAST-IRON MAN

The Seventh Surprise. TIMTOM AND THE PRINCESS PATTYCAKE

The Eighth Surprise. THE BRAVERY OF PRINCE JOLLIKIN

The Ninth Surprise. THE WIZARD AND THE PRINCESS

The Tenth Surprise. THE DUCHESS BREDENBUTTA'S VISIT TO TURVYLAND

The Eleventh Surprise. PRINCE FIDDLECUMDOO AND THE GIANT

The Twelfth Surprise. THE LAND OF THE CIVILIZED MONKEYS

The Thirteenth Surprise. THE STOLEN PLUM PUDDING

The Fourteenth Surprise. THE PUNISHMENT OF THE PURPLE DRAGON

The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (L. Frank Baum)

—Who Knows?—

1. Rob's Workshop

2. The Demon of Electricity

3. The Three Gifts

4. Testing the Instruments

5. The Cannibal Island

6. The Buccaneers

7. The Demon Becomes Angry

8. Rob Acquires New Powers

9. The Second Journey

10. How Rob Served a Mighty King

11. The Man of Science

12. How Rob Saved A Republic

13. Rob Loses His Treasures

14. Turk and Tatar

15. A Battle with Monsters

16. Shipwrecked Mariners

17. The Coast of Oregon

18. A Narrow Escape

19. Rob Makes a Resolution

20. The Unhappy Fate of the Demon

The Sea Fairies (L. Frank Baum)

CHAPTER 1. TROT AND CAP'N BILL

CHAPTER 2. THE MERMAIDS

CHAPTER 3. THE DEPTHS OF THE DEEP BLUE SEA

CHAPTER 4. THE PALACE OF QUEEN AQUAREINE

CHAPTER 5. THE SEA-SERPENT

CHAPTER 6. EXPLORING THE OCEAN

CHAPTER 7. THE ARISTOCRATIC CODFISH

CHAPTER 8. A BANQUET UNDER WATER

CHAPTER 9. THE BASHFUL OCTOPUS

CHAPTER 10. THE UNDISCOVERED ISLAND

CHAPTER 11. ZOG THE TERRIBLE AND HIS SEA DEVILS

CHAPTER 12. THE ENCHANTED ISLAND

CHAPTER 13. PRISONERS OF THE SEA MONSTER

CHAPTER 14. CAP'N JOE AND CAP'N BILL

CHAPTER 15. THE MAGIC OF THE MERMAIDS

CHAPTER 16. THE TOP OF THE GREAT DOME

CHAPTER 17. THE QUEEN'S GOLDEN SWORD

CHAPTER 18. A DASH FOR LIBERTY

CHAPTER 19. KING ANKO TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER 20. THE HOME OF THE OCEAN MONARCH

CHAPTER 21. KING JOE

CHAPTER 22. TROT LIVES TO TELL THE TALE

Prince Mud-Turtle (L. Frank Baum)

Chapter I. Twinkle Captures the Turtle

Chapter II. Twinkle Discovers the Turtle Can Talk

Chapter III. The Turtle Tells of the Corrugated Giant

Chapter IV. Prince Turtle Remembers His Magic

Chapter V. Twinkle Promises to Be Brave

Chapter VI. Twinkle Meets the Corrugated Giants

Chapter VII. Prince Mud-Turtle Becomes Prince Melga

Chapter VIII. Twinkle Receives a Medal

The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald)

CHAPTER I. WHY THE PRINCESS HAS A STORY ABOUT HER

CHAPTER II. THE PRINCESS LOSES HERSELF

CHAPTER III. THE PRINCESS AND—WE SHALL SEE WHO

CHAPTER IV. WHAT THE NURSE THOUGHT OF IT

CHAPTER V. THE PRINCESS LETS WELL ALONE

CHAPTER VI. THE LITTLE MINER

CHAPTER VII. THE MINES

CHAPTER VIII. THE GOBLINS

CHAPTER IX. THE HALL OF THE GOBLIN PALACE

CHAPTER X. THE PRINCESS'S KING-PAPA

CHAPTER XI. THE OLD LADY'S BEDROOM

CHAPTER XII. A SHORT CHAPTER ABOUT CURDIE

CHAPTER XIII. THE COBS' CREATURES

CHAPTER XIV. THAT NIGHT WEEK

CHAPTER XV. WOVEN AND THEN SPUN

CHAPTER XVI. THE RING

CHAPTER XVII. SPRING-TIME

CHAPTER XVIII. CURDIE'S CLUE

CHAPTER XIX. GOBLIN COUNSELS

CHAPTER XX. IRENE'S CLUE

CHAPTER XXI. THE ESCAPE

CHAPTER XXII. THE OLD LADY AND CURDIE

CHAPTER XXIII. CURDIE AND HIS MOTHER

CHAPTER XXIV. IRENE BEHAVES LIKE A PRINCESS

CHAPTER XXV. CURDIE COMES TO GRIEF

CHAPTER XXVI. THE GOBLIN MINERS

CHAPTER XXVII. THE GOBLINS IN THE KING'S HOUSE

CHAPTER XXVIII. CURDIE'S GUIDE

CHAPTER XXIX. MASON-WORK

CHAPTER XXX. THE KING AND THE KISS

CHAPTER XXXI. THE SUBTERRANEAN WATERS

CHAPTER XXXII. THE LAST CHAPTER

The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald)

CHAPTER I. THE MOUNTAIN

CHAPTER II. THE WHITE PIGEON

CHAPTER III. THE MISTRESS OF THE SILVER MOON

CHAPTER IV. CURDIE'S FATHER AND MOTHER

CHAPTER V. THE MINERS

CHAPTER VI. THE EMERALD

CHAPTER VII. WHAT IS IN A NAME?

CHAPTER VIII. CURDIE'S MISSION

CHAPTER IX. HANDS

CHAPTER X. THE HEATH

CHAPTER XI. LINA

CHAPTER XII. MORE CREATURES

CHAPTER XIII. THE BAKER'S WIFE

CHAPTER XIV. THE DOGS OF GWYNTYSTORM

CHAPTER XV. DERBA AND BARBARA

CHAPTER XVI. THE MATTOCK

CHAPTER XVII. THE WINE-CELLAR

CHAPTER XVIII. THE KING'S KITCHEN

CHAPTER XIX. THE KING'S CHAMBER

CHAPTER XX. COUNTER-PLOTTING

CHAPTER XXI. THE LOAF

CHAPTER XXII. THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN

CHAPTER XXIII. DR. KELMAN

CHAPTER XXIV. THE PROPHECY

CHAPTER XXV. THE AVENGERS

CHAPTER XXVI. THE VENGEANCE

CHAPTER XXVII. MORE VENGEANCE

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PREACHER

CHAPTER XXIX. BARBARA

CHAPTER XXX. PETER

CHAPTER XXXI. THE SACRIFICE

CHAPTER XXXII. THE KING'S ARMY

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE BATTLE

CHAPTER XXXIV. JUDGMENT

CHAPTER XXXV. THE END

Lilybell and Thistledown (Louisa May Alcott)

Ripple, The Water Sprite (Louisa May Alcott)

The Brownie And The Princess (Louisa May Alcott)

Mermaids (Louisa May Alcott)

Snow-White and Rose-Red (Brothers Grimm)

Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs (Brothers Grimm)

Rumpelstiltskin (Brothers Grimm)

The Young Giant (Brothers Grimm)

The Valiant Little Tailor (Brothers Grimm)

The Giant and the Tailor (Brothers Grimm)

The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm)

The Elf of the Rose (Hans Christian Andersen)

The Elfin Hill (Hans Christian Andersen)

The Goblin and the Huckster (Hans Christian Andersen)

Puss in Boots (Charles Perrault)

Jack the Giant Killer (Charles Perrault)

Jack and the Bean-Stalk (Charles Perrault)

Little Thumb or, Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Charles Perrault)

The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (Andrew Lang)

The Enchanted Horse (Andrew Lang)

Beauty and the Beast (Andrew Lang)

The Enchanted Pig (Andrew Lang)

The Three Dwarfs (Andrew Lang)

The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs (Andrew Lang)

The Dragon of the North (Andrew Lang)

The Dragon and His Grandmother (Andrew Lang)

The Seven-Headed Serpent (Andrew Lang)

The Giants and the Herd-Boy (Andrew Lang)

How the Dragon was Tricked (Andrew Lang)

The Goblin and the Grocer (Andrew Lang)

The Slaying of the Tanuki (Andrew Lang)

The Troll’s Daughter (Andrew Lang)

The Goblin Pony (Andrew Lang)

Herr Lazarus and the Draken (Andrew Lang)

The Ogre (Andrew Lang)

The History of Dwarf Long Nose (Andrew Lang)

The Headless Dwarfs (Andrew Lang)

The Prince and the Dragon (Andrew Lang)

Niels and the Giants (Andrew Lang)

The Story of the Hero Makóma (Andrew Lang)

The Three Treasures of the Giants (Andrew Lang)

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)

Christmas Eve

The Gifts

The Favorite

Wonder Upon Wonders

The Battle

The Sickness

The Story of the Hard Nut

The Uncle and Nephew

The Victory

The Puppet Kingdom

The Capital

The Conclusion

The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde)

The Greedy Old Man (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Boy who found the Pots of Gold (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Ragweed (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Bad Boy and the Leprechaun (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

Tom and the Knockers (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Knockers’ Diamonds (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

JACK THE TINNER’S STORY

The Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

Little Redcap (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Curmudgeon’s Skin (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

Judy and the Fairy Cat (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Boggart (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Sick-Bed Elves (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

How Peeping Kate was Piskey-Led (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Fairy’s Servants (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Pixies (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Brownie of Blednoch (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

OLD MADGE’S TALE

Elsa and the Ten Elves (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

Piskey Fine! and Piskey Gay! (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Fairy Wedding (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Tomts (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

Kintaro the Golden Boy (Frances Jenkins Olcott)

The Floating Prince (Frank R. Stockton)

How the Aristocrats Sailed Away (A Sequel) (Frank R. Stockton)

Huckleberry (Frank R. Stockton)

The Emergency Mistress (Frank R. Stockton)

The Sprig of Holly (Frank R. Stockton)

The Magician's Daughter and the High-Born Boy (Frank R. Stockton)

Derido; or, The Giant's Quilt (Frank R. Stockton)

The Castle of Bim (Frank R. Stockton)

The Griffin and the Minor Canon (Frank R. Stockton)

Old Pipes and the Dryad (Frank R. Stockton)

The Banished King (Frank R. Stockton)

The Philopena (Frank R. Stockton)

The Unicorn (Kate Douglas Wiggin)

The Troll’s Hammer (Kate Douglas Wiggin)

The Iron Wolf (Kate Douglas Wiggin)

The Good Sea Monster (Abbie Phillips Walker)

Hilda's Mermaid (Abbie Phillips Walker)

The Tell-Tale Goblin (Abbie Phillips Walker)

The Revenge of the Gnomes (Abbie Phillips Walker)

The Rain Elves (Abbie Phillips Walker)

The Dwarf with the Golden Beard (Katharine Pyle)

The Great White Bear and the Trolls (Katharine Pyle)

The King of the Buffaloes (Katharine Pyle)

The Farmer and the Pixy (Katharine Pyle)

Mudjee Monedo (Katharine Pyle)

The Four Wishes (Katharine Pyle)

Beowulf (Hamilton Wright Mabie)

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. WIGWAM LEGEND OF HIAWATHA1

CHAPTER II. BEOWULF

CHAPTER III. CHILDE HORN

CHAPTER IV. SIR GALAHAD

CHAPTER V. RUSTEM AND SOHRAB

CHAPTER VI. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS

CHAPTER VII. GUY OF WARWICK

CHAPTER VIII. CHEVY CHASE

CHAPTER IX. THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR

CHAPTER X. THE BELEAGUERED CITY

CHAPTER XI. PRESTER JOHN

CHAPTER XII. THE WANDERING JEW

CHAPTER XIII. KING ROBERT OF SICILY

INTERLUDE

CHAPTER XIV. THE BEATO TORELLO DA POPPI

CHAPTER XV. THE LORELEI

CHAPTER XVI. THE PASSING OF ARTHUR

CHAPTER XVII. RIP VAN WINKLE

CHAPTER XVIII. THE GRAY CHAMPION

CHAPTER XIX. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER

The Gorgon’s Head (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

INTRODUCTORY TO THE GORGON’S HEAD

The Chimæra (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

INTRODUCTORY TOTHE CHIMÆRA

The Minotaur (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Pygmies (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Dragon’s Teeth (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Golden Fleece (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Fire Bird

Story of Lyubim Tsarevich and the Winged Wolf

The Demon's Dance (Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki)

Lidushka and the Water Demon's Wife (Matěj Mikšíček)

Yanechek and the Water Demon ( Josef Kajetán Tyl)

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Ruth Stiles Gannett, Kenneth Grahame, E. Nesbit, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, George MacDonald, Louisa May Alcott, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Oscar Wilde, Frances Jenkins Olcott, Frank R. Stockton, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Abbie Phillips Walker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Matěj Mikšíček, Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Katharine Pyle

Mermaids, Dragons, Elves, Gnomes, Trolls, Goblins, Phoenix, Unicorn and many more (120 Titles in One Volume)

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"It'll only end in your wishing for something you don't really want, as you did about the castle," said the Psammead, stretching its brown arms and yawning. "It's always the same since people left off eating, really wholesome things. However, have it your own way. Good-bye."

"Good-bye," said Cyril politely.

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