{"product_id":"2940150500150","title":"Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know","description":"The fairy tale is a poetic recording of the facts of life, an interpretation by the imagination of its hard conditions, an effort to reconcile the spirit which loves freedom and goodness and beauty with its harsh, bare and disappointing conditions. It is, in its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs of the imagination, the cravings of the heart. It involves a free, poetic dealing with realities in accordance with the law of mental growth; it is the naïve activity of the young imagination of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful play of the imagination, opening doors through hard conditions to the spirit, which craves power, freedom, happiness; righting wrongs and redressing injuries; defeating base designs; rewarding patience and virtue; crowning true love with happiness; placing the powers of darkness under control of man and making their ministers his servants. In the fairy story, men are not set entirely free from their limitations, but, by the aid of fairies, genii, giants and demons, they are put in command of unusual powers and make themselves masters of the forces of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe oldest fairy stories constitute a fascinating introduction to the book of modern science, curiously predicting its discoveries, its uncovering of the resources of the earth and air, its growing control of the tremendous forces which work in earth and air. And it is significant that the recent progress of science is steadily toward what our ancestors would have considered fairy land; for in all the imaginings of the childhood of the race there was nothing more marvellous or more audaciously improbable than the transmission of the accents and modulations of familiar voices through long distances, and the power of communication across leagues of sea without mechanical connections of any kind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe faculty which created the fairy tale is the same faculty which, supplemented by a broader observation and based on more accurate knowledge, has broadened the range and activities of modern man, made the world accessible to him, enabled him to live in one place but to speak and act in places thousands of miles distant, given him command of colossal forces, and is fast making him rich on a scale which would have seemed incredible to men of a half-century ago. There is nothing in any fairy tale more marvellous and inherently improbable than many of the achievements of scientific observation and invention, and we are only at the beginning of the wonders that lie within the reach of the human spirit!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE EYE, TWO EYES, THREE EYES1\u003cbr\u003e(Grimm's Fairy Tales)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MAGIC MIRROR11\u003cbr\u003e(Grimm's Fairy Tales)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ENCHANTED STAG26\u003cbr\u003e(Grimm's Fairy Tales)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHANSEL AND GRETHEL35\u003cbr\u003e(Grimm's Fairy Tales)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP48\u003cbr\u003e(\"Arabian Nights' Entertainments\")\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HISTORY OF ALI BABA, AND OF THE FORTY ROBBERS KILLED BY ONE SLAVE\u003cbr\u003e(\"Arabian Nights' Entertainments\")109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR140\u003cbr\u003e(\"Arabian Nights' Entertainments\")\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WHITE CAT147\u003cbr\u003e(From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOLDEN GOOSE166\u003cbr\u003e(Grimm's Fairy Tales)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TWELVE BROTHERS173\u003cbr\u003e(Grimm's Fairy Tales)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS180\u003cbr\u003e(From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTOM THUMB195\u003cbr\u003e(First written in prose in 1621 by Richard Johnson)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBLUE BEARD204\u003cbr\u003e(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER212\u003cbr\u003e(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePUSS IN BOOTS222\u003cbr\u003e(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD229\u003cbr\u003e(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJACK AND THE BEAN-STALK236\u003cbr\u003e(Said to be an allegory of the Teutonic Al-fader, The tale written in French\u003cbr\u003eby Charles Perrault)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJACK THE GIANT KILLER254\u003cbr\u003e(From the old British legend told by Geoffrey of Monmouth, of Corineus the Trojan)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLITTLE RED RIDING HOOD273\u003cbr\u003e(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE THREE BEARS276\u003cbr\u003e(Robert Southey)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PRINCESS ON THE PEA279\u003cbr\u003e(From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE UGLY DUCKLING281\u003cbr\u003e(From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LIGHT PRINCESS294\u003cbr\u003e(George MacDonald)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEAUTY AND THE BEAST352\u003cbr\u003e(From the French tale by Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve)","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167815090416,"sku":"2940150500150","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150500150_p0.jpg?v=1763746584","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150500150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}