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Title: Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Author: Various
Release Date: February 5, 2005 [eBook #14916]
Language: English
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FAIRY TALES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW
Edited by
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library
Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for The Parents' Institute, Inc.
Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"
1905
[Illustration: "A thousand fantasies begin to throng"]
INTRODUCTION TO
"FAIRIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW"
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.
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