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Twilight Land

Howard Pyle

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Twilight Land is a collection of stories written and illustrated by Howard Pyle.
> It was not long before the Fiddler found the little wooden plug, and then nothing would do but he must take a peep inside the nut to see if Ill-Luck was really there. So he picked and pulled at the wooden plug, until at last out it came; and—phst! pop! out came Ill-Luck along with it.

Plague take the Fiddler! say I.

"Listen," says Ill-Luck. "It has been many a long day that I have been in that hazel-nut, and you are the man that has let me out; for once in a way I will do a good turn to a poor human body." Therewith, and without giving the Fiddler time to speak a word, Ill-Luck caught him up by the belt, and—whiz! away he flew like a bullet, over hill and over valley; over moor and over mountain, so fast that not enough wind was left in the Fiddler's stomach to say "Bo!"

By-and-by he came to a garden, and there he let the Fiddler drop on the soft grass below. Then away he flew to attend to other matters of greater need.

When the Fiddler had gathered his wits together, and himself to his feet, he saw that he lay in a beautiful garden of flowers and fruit-trees and marble walks and what not, and that at the end of it stood a great, splendid house, all built of white marble, with a fountain in front, and peacocks strutting about on the lawn.

Well, the Fiddler smoothed down his hair and brushed his clothes a bit, and off he went to see what was to be seen at the grand house at the end of the garden.

He entered the door, and nobody said no to him. Then he passed through one room after another, and each was finer than the one he left behind. Many servants stood around; but they only bowed, and never asked whence he came. At last he came to a room where a little old man sat at a table. The table was spread with a feast that smelled so good that it brought tears to the Fiddler's eyes and water to his mouth, and all the plates were of pure gold. The little old man s

Gwendolin 06/27/2024
This was not one of my favorite Howard Pyle books so far. I liked the idea of classic storybook characters gathering in a tavern to tell their own stories, but not as much in execution. A lot of the stories felt a bit repetitive. It also almost seemed like his version of the Arabian Nights. I did, h
Imogen 07/12/2021
It was really, really cute! The stories were fun and I thought it was a really fun!
Adam 04/12/2018
This was a magical book, there's stories in here that you couldn't have even imagined. I couldn't put it down, but maybe that's because I'm a huge nerd for learning about how other cultures think and historical culture is remarkably different than our own.

It's very different from what you expect fro
Trish 02/09/2014
I enjoyed N.D. Wilson's introduction to this book of classic fairy tales. The tales start to sound very similar if you read it straight through like I did! I can recommend it for the Logos Library.
Brennan 01/28/2011
Written towards the end of the 1800's, my book had checkouts from the 1950's. I read "Wisdom's Wages and Folly's Pay". The story tells of a young foolish man and a wizard who cross paths. Shortly after meeting, the wizard has enough of the man's stupidity and leaves the man. But, he leaves the man w

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