**Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of** ***The Hours*** A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, con
The Wild Swans and Other Tales
โ Scribed by Hans Christian Andersen
- Book ID
- 110985253
- Publisher
- Interactive Media
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 432 KB
- Series
- Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781909438484
- ASIN
- B07FGVGC1S
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โฆ Synopsis
The Wild Swans is one of the eighteen stories featured in this timeless collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The story tells of a faraway kingdom where lives a widowed King with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away. The queen then tries to bewitch their 15-year old sister Elisa.
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