Story summary
Краткое содержание: Фиолетовая книга сказок
- Чтение: 9 мин.
- 10 parts
- Аудио скоро
A clever gazelle finds a master a bride, a boy herds a hundred hares, and a clay girl takes the blows.
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Краткое содержание: 9 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 6 h 35 min5 h 15 min fast, 7 h 50 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 94 000
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1901by Эндрю Лэнг
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Фиолетовая книга сказок in short
The Violet Fairy Book gathers tales from many lands into a single shelf of wonders. Poor boys, clever girls, loyal animals and greedy rulers meet again and again, and the old rules apply. Help the weak, keep your promises, and do not take more than you need.
What Фиолетовая книга сказок is about
Can a clay double take a beating in your place? Can a gazelle bought for a small silver coin win a sultan's daughter for its master? Can a boy with a flute free a giant from the elves who stole his soul? The Violet Fairy Book answers yes to all three, and then keeps going.
Andrew Lang did not invent these old folk tales. Country people told them in Romania, Serbia, Estonia, Japan, East Africa, Russia, Germany, Italy and Portugal long before anyone wrote them down, and his wife translated most of them. You get kings, witches, dragons, talking animals and poor boys who think fast. We start on a haunted moor in Sweden.
Для кого. Readers who love fairy tales, talking animals and clever heroes will feel at home here. So will parents and grandparents who like a story to read aloud.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A Girl Wanders Into the Haunted Tontlawald
The opening tale, A Tale of the Tontlawald, begins on a vast moor in Sweden that nobody dares enter. Travelers speak of a ruined house, ragged crowds around a fire, and a black cat as big as a foal.
Near the moor lives Elsa, a quiet girl beaten every day by her stepmother. While picking strawberries, she hears the cry that the children have reached the Tontlawald. Everyone runs except Elsa, who decides that the people there cannot be worse than her stepmother.
A girl in silk named Kisika leads her to a house of glass and jewels. An old man shapes a clay figure with a drop of Elsa's blood to send home in her place. A golden rooster calls a table full of dishes out of a stone at every meal, yet the thirteenth dish is never touched. The lady calls it the dish of hidden blessings.
In a fairy tale, a rule like the untouched thirteenth dish is always worth remembering.
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Small, Clever Heroes Outwit Much Bigger Foes
Many tales in this book follow a small, hungry hero who meets a creature far bigger than himself and wins with words.
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Fate Cannot Be Drowned or Thrown Away
The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars is about a rich merchant who tries to cheat fate.
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Brothers Set Out on Impossible Quests
Several tales send brothers into the world with a task, and the youngest is usually the one who listens.
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Godmothers and Magic Baskets Guard the Wronged
Women with strange gifts bless or burden families throughout the book.
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Loyal Helpers Teach Gratitude and Its Debts
Animals and helpers do much of the work in this book, and what they ask in return is gratitude.
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Disguise Lets Clever Women Take Charge
Several heroines in this book wear a disguise to save someone they love.
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Magic Powers Test the People Who Hold Them
Sorcerers, fairies and enchantments fill the middle of the book, and the heroes of these tales pay a price.
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Greed, Envy and Secrets Bring Trouble
Greed and envy get their lessons in short tales.
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Old Voices Shape How Each Tale Is Told
The preface is plain about where this book comes from.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Elsa A beaten stepdaughter who follows a strawberry patch into the haunted Tontlawald and finds a second home there.
- Vassili A poor peasant's seventh son whom the rich merchant Mark tries again and again to destroy, though three beggars watch over him.
- Petru The youngest prince, who dares to ask his father why one eye weeps, then rides to find the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn.
- Jem A market boy whose rude words to an old woman cost him seven years and his looks, and who becomes the cook Dwarf Long Nose.
- Jesper A fisherman's youngest son who offers pearls for a princess and helps the King of the Ants on the way.
- Halfman Born from half an apple, he is the smallest of twelve brothers and the one who sees the ogre's trick.
- Stan Bolovan A man who wishes for children, gets a hundred, and must outwit a dragon to feed them.
- The Gazelle A talking animal bought for a small coin that works to make its penniless master a sultan.
How it ends (spoiler)
Most tales close with justice done and a feast. Elsa marries the king's son and the Tontlawald is never seen again. Mark the Rich ends as a ferryman on a river. The lute player's queen throws off her cloak and asks her husband for himself as her reward. Petru cures his father's blindness, and his brothers never return. Jem regains his shape and goes home to his parents. The gazelle, sadly, dies of a bitter heart.
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Вопросы о книге Фиолетовая книга сказок
What is The Violet Fairy Book about?
It is a collection of folk tales from many countries, including Romania, Serbia, Japan, Estonia and East Africa. The short stories feature kings, witches, dragons, talking animals and clever young heroes in varied combinations, and many reward kindness or answer cruelty.
Did Andrew Lang write the stories himself?
No. In his preface he explains that he did not invent them. They are traditional tales told by country people for centuries, translated into English mostly by his wife, with a few translated by friends, and he edited and gathered them.
What is a Welwa in The Fairy of the Dawn?
A Welwa is a goblin of the woods in the tale of Prince Petru. It takes strange shapes, rides storms and fog, and must be caught with a bridle. Each one guards a forest of copper, silver or gold.
Is The Violet Fairy Book good for reading aloud?
Yes, it suits reading aloud very well. The tales are short and self-contained, with repeated lines, songs, clear heroes and plenty of humor, so you can read one in a sitting and stop at any story.
Which countries do the stories come from?
The tales come from Sweden, Serbia, Japan, Lithuania, Russia, Estonia, Romania, East Africa, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Scandinavia. Many share plots, such as a helpful animal or a hero who must complete three tasks.
Как сослаться на это издание
Lang, Andrew. The Violet Fairy Book. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-violet-fairy-book.
Lang, A. (2026). The violet fairy book. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-violet-fairy-book (Original work published 1901)
Lang, Andrew. The Violet Fairy Book. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-violet-fairy-book.
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