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CINDERELLA
“There once lived a gentleman and his wife…”
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From the Middle — The Fairy Godmother
CINDERELLA
Her godmother is the Queen of the Faëries — and when the evening of the ball comes, she waves her wand: the pumpkin becomes a coach, the mice become horses, and the cinder-wench goes to the Prince’s ball in a gown of gold. This is the heart of the book, and the story only grows from here.
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What’s Inside
- All three parts, complete and unabridged — The Cinder-Wench · The Fairy Godmother · The Glass Slipper. 3,660 words, exactly as the 1855 edition printed them.
- 28 minutes 34 seconds of narration — Cinderella herself stands in golden light in the corner of the stage and tells her own story aloud, from the ashes to the wedding.
- Every picture of the 1855 edition — the ten plates, the hand-coloured frontispiece, the title page, even the book’s own blue-and-gold covers, each at the very place the printer set it.
- A gentle music-box waltz under the voice the whole way through.
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Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper is a traditional folk tale, told here exactly as Hewet’s Household Stories for Little Folks printed it (D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1855) — the text and the pictures are in the public domain, untouched. The narration is a performed reading made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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