Books with author Juliana H. Ewing

Brought to the windmiller's home as a foundling on a dark and stormy night, the infant Jan soon won his way into the hearts of his new family, especially that of little Abel who served as his nursemaid. Together they lay for hours watching the clouds. Once Abel showed Jan how to draw them in the dirt, he wanted to do nothing else. He drew on slates at school, then as a pig-minder fashioned pictures with colored leaves that blew away in the wind. The schoolmaster encountering him at this occupation befriended him, providing supplies for the budding artist and raising his aspirations. The story begins slowly with rich descriptions and carefully etched characters, then accelerates as the plot twists and turns, and finally gallops to a fine finish fitting for such a talented lad.

This is a beautiful collection of 19 fairy tales for children. The stories include: (1) Good Luck is Better Than Gold, (2) The Hillman and the Housewife, (3) The Neck, (4) The Nix in Mischief, (5) The Cobbler and the Ghosts, (6) The Laird and the Man of Peace, (7) The Ogre Courting, (8) The Magicians’ Gifts, (9) The Widows and the Strangers, (10) Kind William and the Water Sprite, (11) Murdoch’s Rath, (12) The Litter Darner, (13) The Fiddler in the Fairy Ring, (14) “I Won’t.”, (15) The Magic Jar, (16) The First Wife’s Wedding-Ring, (17) The Magician Turned Mischief-Maker, (18) Knave and Fool, and (19) Under the Sun. The edition of the book is amply illustrated. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories.

Excerpt from Jan of the Windmill: A Story of the PlainsSmall Crown With 8 Coloured Plates and Decorated T ztle-page, Covers, and end-papers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt: ...relaxed in the political and religious gossip of the day. Monsieur the Viscount rejoined his young guests, and they fed the gold fish and the swans, and played Colin Maillard in the shady walks, and made a beautiful bouquet for Madame, and then fled indoors at the first approach of evening chill, and found that the Viscountess had prepared a feast of fruit and flowers for them in the great hall. Here, at the head 144 of the table, with Madame at his right hand, his guests around, and the liveried lacqueys waiting his commands, Monsieur the Viscount forgot that anything had ever been made which could mar beauty and enjoyment; while the two priests outside stalked up and down under the falling twilight, and talked ugly talk of crime and poverty that were somewhere now, and of troubles to come hereafter. And so night fell over the beautiful sky, the beautiful ch