In olden times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun it...
Once upon a time, a peasant worked hard to make a living from his land. Every year his pear tree produced four basketfuls of fruit which had to be giv...
That summer the country was particularly beautiful, and it was glorious to be out in the green fields and meadows. It was so amusing to see the white ...
Once upon a time . . . in the immense Russian steppe, lay a little village where nearly all the inhabitants bred horses. It was the month of October, ...
In a little house in a little old village in Japan lived a little old man and his little old wife. One morning when the old woman slid open the screen...
Once upon a time...There was once upon a time a poor miller who had a very beautiful daughter. Now it happened one day that he had an audience with th...
Once upon a time...There lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry anyone, because she was under an enchantment. So...
Once upon a time...A poor widow once lived in a little cottage with a garden in front of it, in which grew two rose trees, one bearing white roses and...
Once upon a time...There was a king and a queen, who were so sorry that they had no children; so sorry that it cannot be expressed. They went to all t...
Once upon a time...There was once a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a little hut close to the sea, and the fisherman used to go down ever...