THE walls of the palace were formed of drifted snow, and the windows and doors of the cutting winds. There were more than a hundred rooms in it, all a...
THEY stopped at a little hut; it was very mean looking; the roof sloped nearly down to the ground, and the door was so low that the family had to cree...
THE coach drove on through a thick forest, where it lighted up the way like a torch, and dazzled the eyes of some robbers, who could not bear to let i...
GERDA was obliged to rest again, and just opposite the place where she sat, she saw a great crow come hopping across the snow toward her. He stood loo...
BUT how fared little Gerda during Kay’s absence? What had become of him, no one knew, nor could any one give the slightest information, exceptin...
IN a large town, full of houses and people, there is not room for everybody to have even a little garden, therefore they are obliged to be satisfied w...
Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmOnce upon a time there was a miller. He lived contentedly with his wife. They had money and land, and their prosperity increase...
A KING1 was once hunting2 in a great wood,3 and he hunted the game so eagerly that none of his courtiers4 could follow him. When evening came on he st...
THERE was once upon a time a poor miller1 who had a very beautiful daughter.2 Now it happened one day that he had an audience with the King,3 and in o...
ONCE upon a time there was little girl, pretty and dainty. But in summer time she was obliged to go barefooted because she was poor, and in winter she...