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    Fairy Tales for Adults
    Fairy Tales for Adults
    Fairy Tales for Adults
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    Fairy Tales for Adults

    By William Shakespeare and Nikolai Leskov

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    There plenty of spooky action in this volume of tales. Ghosts, apparitions, entire armies of fairies and fairy queens. The volume opens with Shakespeare's timeless classic 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and continues to get more frightening with haunted castles in Leskov's 'The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInteractive Media
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9781787244672
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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      Fairy Tales for Adults - William Shakespeare

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      Nikolai Leskov

      William Shakespeare

      Fairy Tales for Adults

      Volume 12

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      New Edition

      Published by Sovereign Classic

      This Edition

      First published in 2018

      Copyright © 2018 Sovereign Classic

      ISBN: 9781787244672

      Contents

      A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

      THE GHOST

      A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

      Hermia and Lysander were lovers; but Hermia’s father wished her to marry another man, named Demetrius.

      Now, in Athens, where they lived, there was a wicked law, by which any girl who refused to marry according to her father’s wishes, might be put to death. Hermia’s father was so angry with her for refusing to do as he wished, that he actually brought her before the Duke of Athens to ask that she might be killed, if she still refused to obey him. The Duke gave her four days to think about it, and, at the end of that time, if she still refused to marry Demetrius, she would have to die.

      Lysander of course was nearly mad with grief, and the best thing to do seemed to him for Hermia to run away to his aunt’s house at a place beyond the reach of that cruel law; and there he would come to her and marry her. But before she started, she told her friend, Helena, what she was going to do.

      Helena had been Demetrius’ sweetheart long before his marriage with Hermia had been thought of, and being very silly, like all jealous people, she could not see that it was not poor Hermia’s fault that Demetrius wished to marry her instead of his own lady, Helena. She knew that if she told Demetrius that Hermia was going, as she was, to the wood outside Athens, he would follow her, and I can follow him, and at least I shall see him, she said to herself. So she went to him, and betrayed her friend’s secret.

      Now this wood where Lysander was

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