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100	1		_aNordau, Max Simon, _d1849-1923
245	1	4	_aThe dwarf's spectacles, and other fairy tales
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-20
505	0		_aWhy the rose-bush has thorns -- Last year's fly -- Like seeks like -- The proud doll -- The grateful sparrows -- The six little glow-worms -- The dwarf's spectacles -- The golden beetle that went on his travels -- The gold braids -- The cats that wouldn't catch mice -- The elf child -- The rich dog and the poor dog -- The little girl who travelled in the big ship -- The naughty brother and the clever sister -- The master -- The heart thread -- The secret empire -- The tame lion -- The flower prison -- Life and death.
508			_aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"The dwarf's spectacles, and other fairy tales" by Max Simon Nordau is a collection of fairy tales written in the early 20th century. Framed as gentle bedtime fables for a child, the stories feature animals, toys, and humble folk whose misadventures teach clear moral lessons about kindness, humility, gratitude, and prudence. Expect vignettes about a sorrowing nightingale, a world‑weary fly, a proud doll, grateful sparrows, steadfast glow‑worms, and a country lad named Michel, all rendered with warm, simple charm. The opening of the collection presents a sequence of brief, moral tales: a nightingale loses her brood to a cat, whereupon the rose‑bush grows thorns to protect future nests—and the bird’s song turns forever wistful; Buzz‑Buzz the fly survives winter only to be rejected by heedless youths and drifts into a painless death, underscoring the cycle of life; a girl’s cherished white mouse fears her giant “monster” touch until a fairy lets the child hear the mice speak, teaching that creatures seek their own kind; Aennchen’s grand doll Kunigunde scorns humbler companions and meets a sordid end, a warning against pride; a little girl who feeds sparrows is thrice saved by them—from poisoned sweets, a runaway horse, and even gypsies who abduct her—after which her family honors the birds; six glow‑worms kidnapped to light an owl student’s studies are freed by the very youth, and the meadow revelers rejoice as the owl stops forcing scholarship; and, at the start of the title tale, the honest farmhand Michel is twice swindled on the road, helps a stranded dwarf across a river, receives spectacles that reveal human thoughts, and immediately uses them to avoid undercutting local laborers, who in turn feed and clothe him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: The Macmillan company, 1905
653			_aFairy tales
700	1		_aHart, H. A.
700	1		_aMcGowan, R.
700	1		_aSafford, F. P.
700	1		_aSafford, Mary J. _q(Mary Joanna), _d1842-1916
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/dwarfsspectacles00nord/page/n7/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77279
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