The Light Princess (1864)
by George MacDonald
A princess is cursed to have no gravity.
The Princess Collection
This collection includes stories of a staple of traditional tales, the princess. Regardless of your perspective – classicist, critical, post-modernist, traditionalist, deconstructionist, etc. – The Princess Collection is at your service.
Books
Passages
The Frog-Prince
by Grimm Brothers
from Grimm's Fairy Tales
A spoiled princess befriends an enchanted frog.
Rapunzel
by Grimm Brothers
from Grimm's Fairy Tales
An enchanted maiden awaits the arrival of her suitor.
Snow-White and Rose-Red
by Grimm Brothers
from Grimm's Fairy Tales
Two sisters provide assistance to a bear in distress.
Kisa the Cat
by Andrew Lang
from The Brown Fairy Book
A princess is captured and maimed by a giant and is rescued and made whole again by her childhood cat. When the princess marries, her cat is transformed into a beautiful princess. She had been under a spell that could only be broken by a good deed that had never been performed before.
Blockhead-Hans
by Andrew Lang
from The Yellow Fairy Book
How Blockhead-Hans won the princess over his two cleverer brothers.
The Crow
by Andrew Lang
from The Yellow Fairy Book
A princess helps ease a cursed prince’s suffering and is finally rewarded by his curse being lifted. They live happily together thereafter.
The Swineherd
by Andrew Lang
from The Yellow Fairy Book
A shallow princess is taught a lesson by a beautiful prince.
The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child
by Yei Theodora Ozaki
from Japanese Fairy Tales
A bamboo cutter finds a small, luminescent girl, and raises her as Princess Moonlight. She refuses all suitors, befriends the Emperor, and eventually returns to her rightful home, the Moon.
The Rat Princess
by Frank Rinder
from Stories from Around the World
The Rat King searches for the most powerful being for his daughter to marry and after he searches from the sun to the cloud to the wind, he finds the strongest being is the Grey Rat that the Princess wanted to marry.
“Sleeping Beauty”
by Grimm Brothers
from Fairy Tales and Other Traditional Stories
An angry fairy casts a spell on a lovely princess. The spell is made less frightening by another fairy. In spite of all efforts to avoid the spell, the princess falls prey to its power. The spell can only be broken by the kiss of a handsome prince charming.
“To Your Good Health!”
by Andrew Lang
from The Crimson Fairy Book
A young shepherd refuses to abide by the laws of the kingdom when the king sneezes. The shepherd survives three perilous trials and refused three magnificent gifts for the hand of the princess in marriage, which he eventually gets out of the king’s frustration.
“Hans, Who Made the Princess Laugh”
by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
from Stories from Around the World
How Hans and a special goose got the princess to laugh.