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Streszczenie książki Opowiadacz
- 8 min czytania
- 8 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A harper braves wind and snow to honor a promise in this collection of twelve tales for children.
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Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 1 h 5 min50 min fast, 1 h 15 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 15 100
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Łatwy short sentences, plain words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1915by Maud Lindsay
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Opowiadacz in short
The Story-Teller gathers twelve short tales under the figure of a traveling teller who comes with a harp and a welcome. Most are tales of small choices. A blacksmith shoes a horse for the cause of peace.
What Opowiadacz is about
Imagine a knock at the door on a winter night. Outside stands a traveler with a harp at his side, and every child in the house runs to the fire. That is how Maud Lindsay opens The Story-Teller, a book of twelve tales for the young.
Her stories belong to a world of kings, blacksmiths, fairies and goblins, and each carries a saying that comes round again and a quiet lesson about courage, kindness or keeping faith.
Dla kogo. Readers who love fairy tales about kings and fairies will enjoy this collection, as will those who delight in Christmas stories, recurring refrains, and old-fashioned tales for children that suit reading aloud beside the fire.
The story in 8 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A traveling teller brings tales to every hearth
Before the first tale comes a greeting. Maud Lindsay pictures olden times, when the Story-Teller knocks at the door of a cottage or a hall. He comes at Christmas, at New Year, or on All Hallows Eve when chestnuts roast in the coals, and he is always welcome.
He has traveled many miles and knows many tales of the wide world.
The children gather round him, and the whole house goes as still as midnight when he speaks the old words, Once upon a time. Lindsay says he believed that joy and sorrow together shape life. The children learned to share in others' happiness and feel sympathy for their sadness, and in time they grew into good men and women.
Stories told with warmth teach a child to feel with other people.
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Every honest trade can serve the king
The first tale follows two brothers who were so seldom apart as boys that anyone who saw one looked for the other.
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Love is shown by what you give up
Two Christmas tales set love against price.
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The Enchanted Wood tests a child's good sense
Two tales share a place called the Enchanted Wood, where fairies live alongside goblins who like to cause trouble.
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Give freely, and kindness comes back around
The Apple Dumpling and The King's Servant both turn on kind exchanges.
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Brave talk is easy and shared joy travels far
The Great White Bear is a gentle joke on boasting.
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Mend your mistakes and tend what you plant
In The Quest for the Nightingale, the fairies of the deepest dell in the Enchanted Wood keep the brooks clean and tend the wildflowers.
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Trust the marked path, whatever the roaring says
The last tale, The Lions in the Way, begins with three friends invited by the king to his palace, the House Beautiful.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- The Story-Teller A traveling teller with a harp, welcome at every door, who carries tales of smiles and tears to children.
- The Blacksmith and his brother Two brothers who choose different lives, one at the king's court and one at the forge, and later meet on a lonely road.
- The Little Prince A young prince who goes out alone at night with his favorite ball to find the one gift his mother wants.
- The Harper A gifted singer who has promised his wife, child and little brown dog to be home by Christmas Day.
- Karl A small boy who wants to carry pancakes through the Enchanted Wood to his father but keeps getting stopped.
- Hans A faithful servant of the king who can understand every creature and helps ants, birds and fish on his road home.
- Pease-Blossom A tiny fairy who falls asleep at his post and must find the queen's stolen nightingale.
- The Old Woman A cheerful old woman who sets out with a basket of plums in search of one apple for her dumpling.
How it ends (spoiler)
The tales close warmly. The brothers are honored alike and live happily at their own work. The prince's gift lets his mother and the sick boy both be glad. The harper reaches his fireside, Karl learns the word that keeps him safe, and the old woman bakes her dumpling. The nightingale returns to a court ball, the neighbor's yard fills with flowers, the town of Wraye laughs at a sheep, and the traveler who trusts the king finds the lions chained and the House Beautiful waiting.
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Pytania o Opowiadacz
What is The Story-Teller by Maud Lindsay about?
It is a collection of twelve short fairy tales for children, with kings, blacksmiths, fairies, goblins and knights. The stories, many set around Christmas, teach kindness, courage and keeping faith, and some have songs.
Which stories are in The Story-Teller?
The twelve tales are The Two Brothers, The Jar of Rosemary, The Promise, The Plate of Pancakes, Little Maid Hildegarde, The Apple Dumpling, The King's Servant, The Great White Bear, The Song That Traveled, The Quest for the Nightingale, The Magic Flower and The Lions in the Way.
What is the Enchanted Wood in these stories?
It is a wood where some people believe fairies and mischievous goblins live. It appears in The Plate of Pancakes, Little Maid Hildegarde, The Great White Bear and The Quest for the Nightingale.
Are the stories easy to read aloud to children?
Yes, they suit reading aloud, because they are short, with clear plots, repeated rhymes and refrains, and a friendly narrator who speaks to the listener. Most can be told in one sitting.
What is the main message of The Story-Teller?
The tales say that kindness comes back, honest work serves others, promises are worth keeping and trust in a good word carries you through fear. The opening says stories teach children to share both joy and sorrow.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Lindsay, Maud. The Story-Teller. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-teller.
Lindsay, M. (2026). The story-teller. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-teller (Original work published 1915)
Lindsay, Maud. The Story-Teller. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-story-teller.
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