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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Show me the fortunate man, and the Gods I forget in a moment.?Schilleb. Somewhere on this broad earth can always be found fit prototypes of the most wildly-conceived heroes and heroines of the fairy-tales. There are little Jacks in our day subduing giants quite as formidable as those of the time of the great Blunderbore. The genii Steam and Electricity are offering seven-league boots and listening-caps to old and young; and bean-stalk ladders are springing up at the feet of the restless Jacks whom fortune favours. The age has its-drowsy Gullivers and its wide-awake Lilliputians, 'its Sinbads, big with adventure, and its army of faithful believers, tilting at everything. There are still Pussies-in-Boots faithfully serving my lord the Marquis of Carabas; daughters spinning weary threads from distaffs never growing less; social harps which at last cry Master and waken terrible ogres, and inquisitive wives vainly trying to re-polish the tell-tale key. We have Blue Beards, with sheathed scimitars, grimly extending their matrimonial relations; and sister Annies ever watchful of another's needs. There are Sleeping Beauties, alas by the thousand; and fair ones with golden locks for whom princes and poets struggle. There are beasts, too, whom we learn to love, after we have entered their rose-lit sanctuaries; and monsters who have sung? Fee fo fum I I smell the blood of an Englishman There are Strong-backs who bear the world's burdens, and Hop-o'-my- Thutnbs who contrive to slip its responsibilities; maidens whose tongues shed dangerous vipers, and maidens whose words are a shower of roses and pearls. Proud sisters are every day being humbled; and patient Cindtrellas dropping the slipper that shall win them the prince. Foolish old couples are wasting their wish...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217074858 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217074855 |
| Weight | 2.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.55 In |
| List Price | $44.82 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 706 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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