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The Star-Child

The Happy Prince

The Devoted Friend

The Selfish Giant

The Remarkable Rocket

The Nightingale and the Rose

The Young King

The Birthday of the Infanta

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Once upon a time[1] two poor Woodcutters went home through a great pine-forest. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow was upon the ground, and upon the branches of the trees. The frost snapped the little twigs on their sides, as they passed. The mountain river was motionless in air, because the Ice-King kissed her. So cold was it that even the animals and the birds did not know what to do.

‘Ugh!’ snarled the Wolf, as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, ‘this is really monstrous weather. Why doesn’t the Government look to it?[2]’

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‘You lost your beauty  –  it does not matter[12]. Stay with us, and I will not mock at you.’

And he said to her,

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