![]() I have a secret fondness for George MacDonald's romance novels. ![]() ![]() The Peasant Girl's Dream, by George MacDonald (originally Heather and Snow) Just a nice little book of memorable tales. They never meet, but they visit each others' lands. Meanwhile, the richest king around wants to make sure that he is the most fortunate. But he becomes fascinated with a little painting in the museum, and then he actually enters it and meets the sad young lady in the picture.Īnd, "Two Kings" shows a very poor king of a very poor kingdom, who needs to make sure that he really is the most miserable of men. "She Cries No More" is a fascinating little story about Claude, who (like Pierre) doesn't care. ![]() He is acclaimed as a wise man, but soon realizes that he isn't wise at all, so what to do now? He learns many trades, but never quite becomes a master, and, now an old man, arrives in a town and starts telling stories about his journeyings. "Alberic the Wise" is about a young farmer who hears of the wide world and goes to learn about it. They're for a middle-grade audience, but anybody else could enjoy them too. Norton Juster is most famous for The Phantom Tollbooth, which I read a lot as a kid, but I don't think I ever read anything else by him, so when I saw this little volume of three fairy tales, I put it on my TBR shelf. Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys, by Norton Juster ![]()
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