The Faun and the Woodcutter's Daughter

A companion volume to the exceptional The Lady and the Linden Tree (1962), this illustrate once again Miss Picard's knack of wrapping new story fabric around traditional material. The fourteen fairy tales presented here have ingenious plots and imaginative characterizations (worldly or otherwise); witness Count Bertrand and his strange triumph over Death; Count Alaric's Lady in which the Count meets the demands of perfect love, Tiger Lily and the Dragon, where poetry finds more than its own reward, and the title story's vivid climax. Fourteen talespinning delights. (Kirkus)Contents: The faun and the woodcutter's daughter --Duke Roland's quest --The corn maiden --Malati and the prince --Clever Dick --The third witch --The three brothers and the black hen --The coral comb --Count Alaric's lady --Tiger Lily and the dragon --The knight and the naiad of the lake --The blackbird's song --Count Bertrand --The white hound.