Fifth Story: The Little Robber Girl

The carriage rolled on into a dark forest. Like a blazing torch, it shone in the eyes of some robbers. They could not bear it.

"That's gold! That's gold!" they cried. They sprang forward, seized the horses, killed the little postilions, the coachman, and the footman, and dragged little Gerda out of the carriage ( Read more... )

First Story: Which Has to Do with a Mirror and its Fragments

Now then! We will begin. When the story is done you shall know a great deal more than you do know.

He was a terribly bad wizened, an artisan of the very wickedest sort and, in fact, he was the devil himself. One day the artisan was in a very good humor because he had just finished a ( Read more... )