The Emperor's New Clothes

By Hans Christian Andersen

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Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to g ...

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Rumpelstiltskin

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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The Golden Goose

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called Dummling,[+] and was despised, mocked, and sneered at on every occasion. It happened that the eldest wanted to go into the forest to ...

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King Grisly-Beard

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who was very beautiful, but so proud, and haughty, and conceited, that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good enough fo ...

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The Twelve Dancing Princesses

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found t ...

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Tom Thumb

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning. 'How lonely it is, wife,' said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, 'for y ...

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Rapunzel

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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Little Red-Cap

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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The Frog-Prince

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?' 'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen i ...

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Briar Rose

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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Hansel and Gretel

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell o ...

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Ashputtel

By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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The Butterfly that Stamped

By Rudyard Kipling

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The Crab that Played with the Sea

By Rudyard Kipling

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'Play at being a Beaver,' and All-the Beaver-there-was played. all the beasts and birds and fishes and told them what to play at. the Animals were playing. ready for him. map. chew her cud. 'Kun?' sai ...

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How the Leopard got His Spots

By Rudyard Kipling

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didn't know which way to jump, Best Beloved. They didn't indeed! his legs were the longest--they went away from the High Veldt. South Africa. And Baviaan winked. He knew. And Baviaan winked. He knew. ...

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The Elephant's Child

By Rudyard Kipling

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hairy, hairy paw. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! spanked him. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! stopping, for a long time. for luck, though he asked them most politely to ...

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A Scandal in Bohemia

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emo ...

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The Red-Headed League

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an ...

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