Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children

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Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children

by Julian Hawthorne

EN·~4 hours·37 chapters

Chapters

37 total

YELLOW-CAP - &c.

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LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

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YELLOW-CAP - AND OTHER FAIRY-STORIES FOR CHILDREN - BY - JULIAN HAWTHORNE - LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1880 - All rights reserved

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YELLOW-CAP.

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CHAPTER I. - AN APPANAGE OF ROYALTY.

8:47

CHAPTER II. - THE GOLDEN PLEDGE.

11:56

CHAPTER III. - THE GOLDEN DWARF.

12:28

CHAPTER IV. - THE TALISMAN.

7:37

CHAPTER V. - THE KING'S FAVOUR.

8:07

CHAPTER VI. - DONKEY-BACK.

6:03

Description

A cozy anthology of gentle fairy tales, this collection invites listeners into a world where simple villages sit beside enchanted forests and ordinary chores give way to marvels. Each story balances light‑hearted humor with a touch of the extraordinary, offering curious children and nostalgic adults alike a series of sweet adventures that sparkle with imagination.

In the opening tale, the reader is taken to the sun‑kissed hamlet of Honeymead, where the Brindled Cow tavern is run by the bright‑eyed Rosamund, whose beauty makes a parade of love‑struck lads grow rounder with every milk‑filled visit. Among them drifts the quiet, thoughtful Raymond, whose daydreams are interrupted when a glittering horseman in a golden cap appears beyond the village lane, promising a mystery that beckons him beyond the ordinary.

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Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (273K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

Mar 27, 2010

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne

1846–1934

Remembered as a prolific American writer and journalist, he worked across novels, short stories, essays, travel writing, biography, and early mystery fiction. As the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody, he grew up close to one of America’s most famous literary families but built a long career of his own.

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