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The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales
First edition (UK)
Author Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator Victor Ambrus
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fairy Tales
Publisher OUP (UK)
Roy (US)
Publication date
1968
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages194 pp

The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1968 anthology of 21 tales from Hungary that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.

Table of contents

  • The Wonderful Tree
  • The Seven Simons
  • The Ram with the Golden Fleece
  • The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples
  • Little Firenko
  • The Secret-Keeping Boy
  • The Witch and the Swan Maiden
  • A Handful of Hay
  • The Cock and the Hen
  • The Spotted Cow
  • Uletka
  • Dummling
  • The Glass Man and the Golden Bird
  • The Fiddle
  • Prince Mirko
  • The Fairy Helena
  • The Three Lemons
  • The Adventures of Pengo
1. Pengo and the Giants
2. Pengo and the Span High Man
  • Gisella and the Goat
  • Kate Contrary
  • The Lost Children

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