This is book is about to contain the best topic you've ever read. I will be taking up the task of putting out Charles Perrault's Stories published in 1697 such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty In The Woods and comparing them to the Disney Movie Car...
Published in 1844 by Hans Christian Andersen and it does have 7 stories in one presented its very pages, a most unique book indeed, Skylights.
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NOW WE ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN, and you must attend; and when weget to the end of the story, you will know more than you do nowabout a very wicked hobgoblin. He was one of the worst kind; infact he was a real demon. One day he was in a high state of delightbecause he had invented a mirror with this peculiarity, that everygood and pretty thing reflected in it shrank away to almost nothing.On the other hand, every bad and good-for-nothing thing stoodout and looked its worst. The most beautiful landscapes reflected init looked like boiled spinach, and the best people became hideous,or else they were upside down and had no bodies. Their faces weredistorted beyond recognition, and if they had even one freckle itappeared to spread all over the nose and mouth. The demon thoughtthis immensely amusing. If a good thought passed through any one'smind, it turned to a grin in the mirror, and this caused real delightto the demon. All the scholars in the demon's school, for he kept aschool, reported that a miracle had taken place: now for the firsttime it had become possible to see what the world and mankindwere really like. They ran about all over with the mirror, till at lastthere was not a country or a person which had not been seen in thisdistorting mirror. They even wanted to fly up to heaven with it tomock the angels; but the higher they flew, the more it grinned, somuch so that they could hardly hold it, and at last it slipped out oftheir hands and fell to the earth, shivered into hundreds of millions6Storiesand billions of bits. Even then it did more harm than ever. Some ofthese bits were not as big as a grain of sand, and these flew about allover the world, getting into people's eyes, and, once in, they stuckthere, and distorted everything they looked at, or made them see everything that was amiss. Each tiniest grain of glass kept the samepower as that possessed by the whole mirror. Some people even got abit of the glass into their hearts, and that was terrible, for the heartbecame like a lump of ice. Some of the fragments were so big thatthey were used for window panes, but it was not advisable to look atone's friends through these panes. Other bits were made into spectacles, and it was a bad business when people put on these spectaclesmeaning to be just. The bad demon laughed till he split his sides; ittickled him to see the mischief he had done. But some of these fragments were still left floating about the world, and you shall hear whathappened to them
Many a winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at
the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful
patterns like flowers.
SECOND STORY
About a little boy and a little girl
IN A BIG TOWN crowded with houses and people, where there is no
room for gardens, people have to be con-tent with flowers in pots
instead. In one of these towns lived two children who managed to
have some-thing bigger than a flower pot for a garden. They were
