Beautiful Princess Fiorimonde is secretly a witch who turns each unwanted suitor into a bead on her necklace, until a quick-witted serving-maid named Gervaise intervenes. The other original tales include the wanderings of the musician Arasmon and his wife Chrysea and several more moral fantasies, illustrated by Walter Crane and dedicated to the author’s nephews and nieces.
Some of the finest literary fairy tales of the Victorian age, by a friend of the Pre-Raphaelites. Download the free EPUB.