Project Gutenberg 2025-06-26 Public domain in the USA. 243 Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) 1831 1894 Austin, Jane Goodwin Goodwin, Jane Austin, Mrs. Henry Billings, Hammatt 1818 1874 Billings, Charles Howland Hammatt Billings, Hammett Billings Fairy dreams : $b or, Wanderings in Elf-land $aBoston :$bJ.E. Tilton and Company, $c1859. Sonya Schermann, Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Fairy dreams; or, Wanderings in Elf-land" by Jane G. Austin is a collection of fairy tales written in the mid-19th century. The tales weave quests, enchantments, and nature spirits into moral, gently romantic adventures, following characters like Prince Rudolf, Mabel the charcoal-burner’s daughter, the solitary Ernest, and the picture-dreaming Claude as they seek love, truth, and wonder. The opening of the collection presents four standalone stories. In Prince Rudolf’s adventure, a sage equips him with a pure veil and a diamond-tipped spear to test enchanted “flower” maidens; false splendor (tulip, cactus, lily) collapses under the veil, until the true rose maiden, revealed and awakened by the spear, becomes his companion. König Tolv’s Bride follows Mabel of the Hartz mountains, whose midsummer-night yearning leads to a supposed elf-king; with a hermit’s blessing the “king” proves a noble count, and she weds into a loving human home as her grim father vanishes. The Gray Cat and the Cave of the Winds tells of Ernest, who shelters a gray cat that transforms at midnight into Princess Phelia; he steals a magic flute from the Four Winds, lulls gnomes, recovers her stolen crown, and restores her, winning her hand. At the start of The Frost-Maiden, Claude grows up entranced by winter’s window pictures of a distant palace and a lone girl beneath a fir; as a man he ranges the world toward the far north, determined to reach the Frost-King’s realm, where the excerpt breaks with him stepping into the deadly cold in pursuit of his vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/fairydreamsorwan00aust/page/n7/mode/2up 20240302073707austin 1859 US Reading ease score: 66.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Children's stories, American Fairies -- Juvenile fiction Magic -- Juvenile fiction Courts and courtiers -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Short Stories Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: American Literature 196432 2025-07-30T07:57:34.859284 text/html 170876 2025-06-26T16:58:34 text/html 4125215 2025-07-30T07:57:41.486245 application/epub+zip 4122159 2025-07-30T07:57:37.040260 application/epub+zip 260721 2025-07-30T07:57:35.436319 application/epub+zip 5082420 2025-07-30T07:57:44.413745 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5063277 2025-07-30T07:57:40.018274 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 170073 2025-07-30T07:57:34.313283 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 150148 2025-06-26T16:58:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15656 2025-07-30T07:57:44.739742 application/rdf+xml 16679 2025-07-30T07:57:35.608255 image/jpeg 2537 2025-07-30T07:57:35.519329 image/jpeg 5209256 2025-07-30T07:57:34.966298 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia