{"product_id":"2940013499478","title":"The Enchanted Island of Yew","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   1.  Once On a Time\u003cbr\u003e   2.  The Enchanted Isle\u003cbr\u003e   3.  The Fairy Bower\u003cbr\u003e   4.  Prince Marvel\u003cbr\u003e   5.  The King of Thieves\u003cbr\u003e   6.  The Troubles of Nerle\u003cbr\u003e   7.  The Gray Men\u003cbr\u003e   8.  The Fool-Killer\u003cbr\u003e   9.  The Royal Dragon of Spor\u003cbr\u003e  10.  Prince Marvel Wins His Fight\u003cbr\u003e  11.  The Cunning of King Terribus\u003cbr\u003e  12.  The Gift of Beauty\u003cbr\u003e  13.  The Hidden Kingdom of Twi\u003cbr\u003e  14.  The Ki and The Ki-Ki\u003cbr\u003e  15.  The High Ki of Twi\u003cbr\u003e  16.  The Rebellion of The High Ki\u003cbr\u003e  17.  The Separation of The High Ki\u003cbr\u003e  18.  The Rescue of The High Ki\u003cbr\u003e  19.  The Reunion of The High Ki\u003cbr\u003e  20.  Kwytoffle, the Tyrant\u003cbr\u003e  21.  The Wonderful Book of Magic\u003cbr\u003e  22.  The Queen of Plenta\u003cbr\u003e  23.  The Red Rogue of Dawna\u003cbr\u003e  24.  The Enchanted Mirrors\u003cbr\u003e  25.  The Adventurers Separate\u003cbr\u003e  26.  The End of the Year\u003cbr\u003e  27.  A Hundred Years Afterward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.  \"Once on a Time\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am going to tell a story, one of those tales of astonishing\u003cbr\u003eadventures that happened years and years and years ago.  Perhaps you\u003cbr\u003ewonder why it is that so many stories are told of \"once on a time\", and\u003cbr\u003eso few of these days in which we live; but that is easily explained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the old days, when the world was young, there were no automobiles\u003cbr\u003enor flying-machines to make one wonder; nor were there railway trains,\u003cbr\u003enor telephones, nor mechanical inventions of any sort to keep people\u003cbr\u003ekeyed up to a high pitch of excitement.  Men and women lived simply and\u003cbr\u003equietly.  They were Nature's children, and breathed fresh air into\u003cbr\u003etheir lungs instead of smoke and coal gas; and tramped through green\u003cbr\u003emeadows and deep forests instead of riding in street cars; and went to\u003cbr\u003ebed when it grew dark and rose with the sun--which is vastly different\u003cbr\u003efrom the present custom.  Having no books to read they told their\u003cbr\u003eadventures to one another and to their little ones; and the stories\u003cbr\u003ewere handed down from generation to generation and reverently believed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose who peopled the world in the old days, having nothing but their\u003cbr\u003ehands to depend on, were to a certain extent helpless, and so the\u003cbr\u003efairies were sorry for them and ministered to their wants patiently and\u003cbr\u003efrankly, often showing themselves to those they befriended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo people knew fairies in those days, my dear, and loved them, together\u003cbr\u003ewith all the ryls and knooks and pixies and nymphs and other beings\u003cbr\u003ethat belong to the hordes of immortals.  And a fairy tale was a thing\u003cbr\u003eto be wondered at and spoken of in awed whispers; for no one thought of\u003cbr\u003edoubting its truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo-day the fairies are shy; for so many curious inventions of men have\u003cbr\u003ecome into use that the wonders of Fairyland are somewhat tame beside\u003cbr\u003ethem, and even the boys and girls can not be so easily interested or\u003cbr\u003esurprised as in the old days.  So the sweet and gentle little immortals\u003cbr\u003eperform their tasks unseen and unknown, and live mostly in their own\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful realms, where they are almost unthought of by our busy,\u003cbr\u003ebustling world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet when we come to story-telling the marvels of our own age shrink\u003cbr\u003einto insignificance beside the brave deeds and absorbing experiences of\u003cbr\u003ethe days when fairies were better known; and so we go back to \"once on\u003cbr\u003ea time\" for the tales that we most love--and that children have ever\u003cbr\u003eloved since mankind knew that fairies exist.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079560708336,"sku":"2940013499478","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013499478_p0.jpg?v=1763582248","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013499478","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}