Andrew Lang gathered fairy tales from across Europe into this collection, and "The Bronze Ring" here has the shape you'd expect: a king, an impossible task, a poor boy who turns out to have exactly what's needed. Each story is short enough for one sitting and the formal, storytelling cadence ("Once upon a time in a certain country") makes it easy to read aloud without much rehearsal.
Chapters
A long one: read it a chapter a night.
- THE BRONZE RING
- PRINCE HYACINTH AND THE DEAR LITTLE PRINCESS
- EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
- THE YELLOW DWARF
- LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
- THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD
- ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP
- THE TALE OF A YOUTH WHO SET OUT TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS
- RUMPELSTILTZKIN
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
- THE MASTER-MAID
- WHY THE SEA IS SALT
- FELICIA AND THE POT OF PINKS
- THE WHITE CAT
- THE TERRIBLE HEAD
- THE SONG OF THE WESTERN FAIRIES
- THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS
- THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON
- THE WONDERFUL SHEEP
- LITTLE THUMB
- THE FORTY THIEVES
- HANSEL AND GRETTEL
- SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
- THE GOOSE-GIRL
- TOADS AND DIAMONDS
- PRINCE DARLING
- BLUE BEARD
- TRUSTY JOHN
- THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL
- THE STORY OF PRINCE AHMED AND THE FAIRY PARIBANOU
- II
- THE HISTORY OF JACK THE GIANT-KILLER
- THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY
- THE RED ETIN
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