Alexandre Dumas is known as a novelist, but to our readers he is absolutely unfamiliar as a storyteller. The works presented in this book are being published in Russian for the first time. Fairy tales created by the great French novelist especially for children. But the magical power of Dumas’s talent is such that these incredible stories about Pierrot, Snow White, the little Sirenette, the man who could not cry, and other heroes captivate not only children but adults as well.
The sixteenth book in the “Family Library” series includes fairy tales by the great French novelist Alexandre Dumas, written more than 100 years ago and still capturing the imagination of children and adults: The Magic Whistle, the Cavel King, Pierrot and the Goose, Sirenette, Snow White, the Man Who Could Not Cry, vain Tinty, Pierrot, My Uncle’s Rabbit, the Tale of Countess Bertha.
Contents:
The Magic Whistle
Cavel King
Turner Gottlieb
Gottlieb nearly falls into the hands of the devil
Gottlieb meets the coalman and what comes of it
Pierrot and the Goose
Sirenette
Snow White
The Man Who Could Not Cry
Vain Tinty
Pierrot
Chapter I. The Woodcutters’ Supper
Chapter II. About what may happen if you find a little boy in the forest
Chapter III. Pierrot’s Baptism
Chapter IV. “Moonlight”
Chapter V. The Red Fish
Chapter VI. For Heaven’s sake! Open the door!
Chapter VII. “With the first of April!”
Chapter VIII. “My candle went out! And it’s dark for me!”
Chapter IX. Lisitsino’s betrayal
Chapter X. The death of Prince Azor
Chapter XI. Pierrot’s oath
Chapter XII. Lend me a feather, write a couple of lines
MY UNCLE’S RABBIT
Introductory talk
Tale of Countess Bertha
Preface
What Countess Bertha was like
Kobolds
The old castle
Embassy
Honey porridge
A ghost
Bread and water
Voldemar Rosenberg
The strange nanny
Vilbold Eisenfeld
Knight Hans von Warburg
Gilda
The fiery hand
Knight Torald
Conjurers of spirits
Knight with a spinning wheel
Treasure