Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, children's writer, novelist, travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War.
This is a collection of six of the magical fairy stories he wrote for children.
The Glass Mender
The Silver Mountain
The Wise Princess
The Cunning Apprentice
The Minstrel
The Blue Rose
A fascinating collection of some of the great - but less well known - fairy tales of all time.
The Glass Mender
The Giant who had no Heart
The Gifts of the Magician
The Miller, his Son and their Ass
Punchkin
The Enchanted Knife
The Minstrel
The Stonecutter
The Parrot
The Alligator and the Jackal
The Stag at the Pool
The Cormorants of Udrost
The Three Dogs
The Brahman, the Tiger and the Six Judges
The Pancake
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
The Stag in the Ox Stall
The Lad and the Devil
The Blue Rose
The Man who was going to Mind the House
The Golden Mermaid
The Lads who met the Trolls in Hedale Woods
The Curse of the Seven Children
The Frog
The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey
The Cunning Apprentice
An Old Fashioned Christmas Eve
The Eagle and the Jackdaw
The Two Frogs
The Silver Mountain
The Donkey Skin
Tit for Tat
The Old Woman and the Physician
The Wise Princess
The Bronze Ring
The Princess who was hidden Underground
Matthias the Hunter's Stories
The Language of Animals
Mercury and the Workmen
Peter Gynt
Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, children's writer, novelist, travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War.
"The Wise Princess" is a take on the traditional Russian fairy tale of the frog princess. Three princes are instructed by their father, the king, to fire their arrows at random and marry whichever maiden it lands near to. The youngest son's arrow lands in a marsh next to a frog. But the frog turns out to be a wise princess in disguise - and when the prince sees the princess in her true form he falls in love with her. One night when the princess is not wearing her frogskin, the princes takes it and burns it. The princess is forced to flee and the prince must embark on a long and difficult quest to find his lovely bride.
