The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book

Constance Cary Harrison (1843 - 1920)

"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch and the ogre; and please don't have any moral, only let everybody 'live in peace and die in a pot of grease,' at the end of it." "To be sure, we know most of mamma's stories by heart," said the sage elder of nine. "If she could only make up some new ones that aren't in any of our books! Or else, mamma, tell us something you heard a little bit of, long, long ago, from your nurse, and then make up the rest. But whatever one you tell, we'll be sure to like it anyhow." The stories told, the mother fell to musing, and the result is the little book here presented to the judgment of children other than her own—a few new fairy tales, on the old, old pattern! (Summary by Constance Cary Harrison (in her Introduction)).

Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 00 - Fairy Days and Introduction Carol Box
00:15:28
Play 01 01 - The Princess Eglantine Carol Box
00:25:18
Play 02 02 - Dame Martha's Step-daughter Carol Box
00:34:35
Play 03 03 - The Adventures of Ha'penny Carol Box
00:30:38
Play 04 04 - Sybilla, Myrtillo and Furioso Carol Box
00:16:38
Play 05 05 - The Magic Coffee-Mill Carol Box
00:07:50
Play 06 06 - The Little White Mouse Carol Box
00:23:14
Play 07 07 - The Fairies and the Fiddler Carol Box
00:29:39
Play 08 08 - The Ice King's Bride Carol Box
00:23:20
Play 09 09 - Deep-Sea Violets Carol Box
00:39:27
Play 10 10 - The Wild Woodsman Carol Box
00:09:05
Play 11 11 - The Frozen Hearth-Fairy Carol Box
00:04:42
Play 12 12 - Rosy's Stay-at-Home Party Carol Box
00:28:53
Play 13 13 - The Turkey Queen Carol Box
00:33:22
Play 14 14 - Timid Agnes Carol Box
00:08:04
Play 15 15 - The Ogress and the Cook Carol Box
00:32:21
Play 16 16 - Miss Peggy and the Frog Carol Box
00:10:05
Play 17 17 - The Leperhaun:A Legend of the Emerald Isle Carol Box
00:08:02
Play 18 18 - The Trials of Sir Isumbras Carol Box
00:11:10
Play 19 19 - Bisclaveret Carol Box
00:07:04
Play 20 20 - Roswal and Lilian Carol Box
00:15:05
Play 21 21 - Eliduc and Guilliadun Carol Box
00:11:24
Play 22 22 - The Falcon-King Carol Box
00:14:00
Play 23 23 - Sir Eglamour and Crystabell Carol Box
00:20:31