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_aAustin, Jane G. _q(Jane Goodwin), _d1831-1894 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aFairy dreams |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-06-26 | ||
| 508 | _aSonya Schermann, Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _a"Fairy dreams; or, Wanderings in Elf-land" by Jane G. Austin is a collection of fairy tales written in the mid-19th century. The tales weave quests, enchantments, and nature spirits into moral, gently romantic adventures, following characters like Prince Rudolf, Mabel the charcoal-burner’s daughter, the solitary Ernest, and the picture-dreaming Claude as they seek love, truth, and wonder. The opening of the collection presents four standalone stories. In Prince Rudolf’s adventure, a sage equips him with a pure veil and a diamond-tipped spear to test enchanted “flower” maidens; false splendor (tulip, cactus, lily) collapses under the veil, until the true rose maiden, revealed and awakened by the spear, becomes his companion. König Tolv’s Bride follows Mabel of the Hartz mountains, whose midsummer-night yearning leads to a supposed elf-king; with a hermit’s blessing the “king” proves a noble count, and she weds into a loving human home as her grim father vanishes. The Gray Cat and the Cave of the Winds tells of Ernest, who shelters a gray cat that transforms at midnight into Princess Phelia; he steals a magic flute from the Four Winds, lulls gnomes, recovers her stolen crown, and restores her, winning her hand. At the start of The Frost-Maiden, Claude grows up entranced by winter’s window pictures of a distant palace and a lone girl beneath a fir; as a man he ranges the world toward the far north, determined to reach the Frost-King’s realm, where the excerpt breaks with him stepping into the deadly cold in pursuit of his vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBoston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1859 |
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| 653 | _aChildren's stories, American | ||
| 653 | _aFairies -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMagic -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aCourts and courtiers -- Juvenile fiction | ||
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_aBillings, Hammatt, _d1818-1874 |
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