Fairy Tales for Adults

By Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare and Beatrix Potter

This selection of stories and tales is perfect for that cold winter night to cosy up around fireplace and enter magical world of far away lands or kingdoms of the past. This volume opens with two tales from Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, followed by Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault. And in the second half we have Anton Chekhov's story, A Gentleman Friend, followed by William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Interactive Media
• Release date: Mar 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781787244597

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian doctor, short-story writer, and playwright. Born in the port city of Taganrog, Chekhov was the third child of Pavel, a grocer and devout Christian, and Yevgeniya, a natural storyteller. His father, a violent and arrogant man, abused his wife and children and would serve as the inspiration for many of the writer’s most tyrannical and hypocritical characters. Chekhov studied at the Greek School in Taganrog, where he learned Ancient Greek. In 1876, his father’s debts forced the family to relocate to Moscow, where they lived in poverty while Anton remained in Taganrog to settle their finances and finish his studies. During this time, he worked odd jobs while reading extensively and composing his first written works. He joined his family in Moscow in 1879, pursuing a medical degree while writing short stories for entertainment and to support his parents and siblings. In 1876, after finishing his degree and contracting tuberculosis, he began writing for St. Petersburg’s Novoye Vremya, a popular paper which helped him to launch his literary career and gain financial independence. A friend and colleague of Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, and Ivan Bunin, Chekhov is remembered today for his skillful observations of everyday Russian life, his deeply psychological character studies, and his mastery of language and the rhythms of conversation.

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Anton Chekhov

Beatrix Potter

Charles Perrault

William Shakespeare

Fairy Tales for Adults

Volume 8

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New Edition

Published by Sovereign Classic

This Edition

First published in 2018

Copyright © 2018 Sovereign Classic

ISBN: 9781787244597

Contents

THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE

THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN

PUSS IN BOOTS

A GENTLEMAN FRIEND

TWELFTH NIGHT

THE TALE OF MRS. TITTLEMOUSE

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NELLIE’S

LITTLE BOOK

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Once upon a time there was a wood-mouse, and her name was Mrs. Tittlemouse.

She lived in a bank under a hedge.

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Such a funny house! There were yards and yards of sandy passages, leading to storerooms and nut-cellars and seed-cellars, all amongst the roots of the hedge.

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There was a kitchen, a parlour, a pantry, and a larder.

Also, there was Mrs. Tittlemouse’s bedroom, where she slept in a little box bed!

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Mrs. tittlemouse was a most terribly tidy particular little mouse, always sweeping and dusting the soft sandy floors.

Sometimes a beetle lost its way in the passages.

Shuh! shuh! little dirty feet! said Mrs. Tittlemouse, clattering her dust-pan.

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And one day a little old woman ran up and down in a red spotty cloak.

Your house is on fire, Mother Ladybird! Fly away home to your children!

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Another day, a big fat spider came in to shelter from the rain.

"Beg pardon, is this not