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Cover of Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye

Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye

or the Limping Fox

by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015

Once upon a time there lived a man whose right eye always smiled, and whose left eye always cried; and this man had three sons, two of them very clever, and the third very stupid. Now these three sons were very curious about the peculiarity of their father's eyes, and as they could not...
Cover of Le propriétaire
by Amédée ACHARD
Language: French
Release Date: March 18, 2015

INCLINEZ-VOUS devant les douze lettres de ce mot-là ; toutes les puissances se résument en elles ; en elles sont le commencement et la fin, l’alpha et l’oméga de ce qui est. Qui n’est pas propriétaire veut le devenir, qui l’est veut l’être toujours....
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Story of Wali Dad the Simple-Hearted

Told the author by an Old Indian

by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015

Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dad Gunjay, or Wali Dad the Bald. He had no relations, but lived all by himself in a little mud hut some distance from any town, and made his living by cutting grass in the jungle, and selling it as fodder for horses... 
Cover of Why the Sea is Salt
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were two brothers, the one rich and the other poor. When Christmas Eve came, the poor one had not a bite in the house, either of meat or bread; so he went to his brother, and begged him, in God's name, to give him something for Christmas Day... 
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Allerleirauh

or the Many-Furred Creature

by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015

There was once upon a time a King who had a wife with golden hair, and she was so beautiful that you couldn't find anyone like her in the world....
Cover of The Three Little Birds
by Grimm Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Three sisters were tending cows when a king and his company went by. The oldest pointed at the king and said she would marry him or no one; her sisters pointed at ministers and said the same. The king summoned them before him, and then, because they were very beautiful, he married the oldest and his ministers married the youngest....
Cover of The Bremen Town-Musicians
by Grimm Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015

In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster (or hen), all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together....
Cover of The Wonderful Tune
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015

Maurice Connor was the king, and that's no small word, of all the pipers in Munster. He could play jig and reel without end, and Ollistrum's March, and the Eagle's Whistle, and the Hen's Concert, and odd tunes of every sort and kind. But he knew one far more surprising than the rest, which had in it the power to set everything dead or alive dancing...
Cover of The Story of a Clever Tailor
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015

Once upon a time there lived an exceedingly proud Princess. If any suitor for her hand ventured to present himself, she would give him some riddle or conundrum to guess, and if he failed to do so, he was hunted out of the town with scorn and derision...
Cover of The One-Handed Girl
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015

An old couple once lived in a hut under a grove of palm trees, and they had one son and one daughter. They were all very happy together for many years, and then the father became very ill, and felt he was going to die. He called his children to the place where he lay on the floor for...
Cover of L’Aigle, le Choucas et le Berger
by Esope
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2015

Ésope est un écrivain grec d'origine phrygienne, à qui on attribue la paternité de la fable comme littérature ou genre littéraire. Cette petite fable , comme la tradition le veut , se termine par une morale instructive . 
Cover of L’Aigle aux ailes écourtées et le Renard
by Esope
Language: French
Release Date: June 2, 2015

Ésope est un écrivain grec d'originephrygienne, à qui on attribue la paternité de la fable comme littérature ou genre littéraire. Cette petite fable comporte comme celles de La Fontaine une morale propre à l'instruction . 
Cover of Legend of Mont St. Michel
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Saint Michel ruled the rock and surrounding cays , while Satan had all the nice fat land. Saint Michel unable to do more of his poverty proposes a deal : he will give him half of the crops and will do all the work. Satan, who is a slacker , agrees . Saint Michael asks him if he wants crops that are...
Cover of Madame Husson's Rosier
by Guy de Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

A friend of the narrator, very imbued with local history, tells the following story : Mrs Husson, model under Gisors, is prefixed to promote chastity in his city capping a rosière . But no girl can resist the investigation of manners , as Ms. Husson folds it on the simple spirit of the village...
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