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100 1 _aVolkhovskii, F.
_q(Feliks),
_d1846-1914
245 1 2 _aA China cup, and other stories for children
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2021
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2021-02-21
505 0 _aA China cup -- How Scarlet-Comb the cock defended the right -- The tiny screw -- The dream -- Browny -- The old sword's mistake -- 'My own' -- The tale about how all these tales came to light.
508 _aCarlos Colón, Harvard University and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"A China Cup and Other Stories for Children" by Felix Volkhovski is a collection of children's tales written in the late 19th century. The stories explore themes of transformation, identity, and the value of inner beauty, with a particular focus on characters who undergo significant changes in their lives. One central story features a piece of clay that becomes a beautiful china cup, exploring topics of suffering, vanity, and redemption. At the start of the book, the tale "A China Cup" introduces a lump of clay, poignantly personified, as it is extracted from the ground and experiences various ordeals in a china factory. The clay's journey takes it from being a worthless lump to being shaped into a fine cup, but not without trials that evoke feelings of pain and despair. As the cup navigates her world, she encounters themes of pride, envy, and ultimately, the realization of her worth, particularly through her interactions with other china pieces and the fateful moment when she is chosen by a young girl. This opening sets the stage for a larger narrative that imparts moral lessons to young readers while engaging their imagination through richly detailed storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren's stories
653 _aChildren -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aMalyshev, Mikhail Egorovich,
_d1852-1912
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64606
999 _c105429
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