We invite you to take an amazing and unforgettable journey into the world of fairy tales. Funny and sad, frightening and comical—they are known to us since childhood. They are tied to our first impressions of the world, of good, evil, and justice. In terms of everyday life, they are naive; from the perspective of life experience, they are deep and inexhaustible. Children and adults both love them; they inspire writers and poets, composers and artists—these are fairy tales. Magical, thrilling, and unique.
The importance of fairy tales in our lives together is hard to overestimate. We all grew up on fairy tales. How many generations of little listeners would freeze, holding their breath, the moment they heard the cherished words “Once upon a time…” or “In a certain kingdom, in a certain state”… Exactly fairy tales: kind and instructive, sad and funny became our companions on the path into the complicated world of adults.
In this audiobook, you’ll find audio versions of fairy tales: English tales — Jack or the golden nutcracker; Jack the giant killer; Child Wind and the enchanted snake; Hungarian tales — Beautiful Stephen; The Fisherman Yoczko; Fairy Eliza; Eastern tales — Abu Hasan or the Caliph for an hour; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Magic Horse; Dutch tales — Snow White; Vanya and Masha; Danish tales — The Traveling Companion; The Little Mermaid; The Swineherd; Indian tales — The Daughter of the Woodcutter; The Reward of Satvachila; Three Suitors; Italian tales — The New Year of the Giant; The Secret of the Pilgrim; Dancing Water, Singing Stone, and the Talking Bird; German tales — Table, Cover Yourself; The Happy Ivan; Three Wishes; A Dutch tale — Johanna; Norwegian tales — How Two Boys Met the Trolls in the Hedel Forest; The Little Kid (Goatling); The Mill Turning at the Bottom of the Sea; Polish tales — The Ringing Linden; The Prince by Surprise; Romanian tale — Princess Ileana; Serbian tale — The Foolish Woman; Slavic tales — The Brothers; Emelya-the Fool; Miletin; The Tale of Ivan the Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf; The Snow Maiden; Three Tsareviches; Each day grows no easier; Finnish tale — The Gift of the Sea King; French tales — The Downtrodden One; Tom Thumb; Sleeping Beauty; Czech tales — Tall, Broad, and Sharp-Eyed; Twelve Months; Swedish tales — The Fair-Haired Princess; Three Swords; Japanese tales — Ogre-beasts from Oye-yama; Fisherman Urashimataro.