ONCE UPON A TIME there was a prince. He wanted a princess, but she had...
IN THIS ONE TOWN there were two men who both had the same name. Both w...
A SOLDIER CAME MARCHING along the road: One, two! One, two! He had his...
THERE WAS AN OLD estate with an excellent young master and mistress. T...
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HE WHO COULD DO the most incredible thing was to have the King’s daugh...
THERE WAS A YOUNG man who was studying to be a writer. He wanted to be...
“I WANT TO BE something!” said the eldest of five brothers. “I want to...
THERE WAS AN ELDERLY man on the steamship with such a contented face. ...
You KNOW THE PIXIE, but do you know Madame, the gardener’s wife? She w...
THERE WAS A MAN who at one time had known so many new fairy tales, but...
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a merchant who was so rich that he could pa...
ABOUT FIVE MILES FROM the capital there was an old manor house with th...
OF COURSE YOU KNOW that in China the emperor is Chinese, and all the p...
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1805Hans Christian Andersen is born on April 2, in the Danish city of ...
The future author of the classic stories “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Lit...