If you want to feel the humor of the wonderful nation and see the light of the people's kindness, you should read these tales.
These tales are radiant with the Polish vitality, filial love for one's parents, and the energy of kindness.
None of the fairy tales has been previously published in this English translation.
This book comprises the following 50 fairy tales:
1. Sermon
2. Three Lamps
3. About a Simple Man Who Comforted His Master
4. People Getting Rich
5. Do Wives Like This Exist?
6. The Owl and the Hawk
7. The Reason Why the Hare Eats No Meat
8. The Dog's Winter Thoughts and Summer Thoughts
9. Is there justice in this world?
10. Mazek's Debt
11. Very Worst Punishment
12. Maria: What Is Destined to Come Shall Come
13. It Does not Stab, nor Does It Shoot, yet It Knocks One Senseless
14. About a Rich Gentleman
15. How a Smith Worked His Way to Heaven
16. About a Prince Who Did not Want to Die
17. Anuszka the Golden Braid
18. A Present for the Kings' Godson
19. About the King's Son
20. How a Simple Man's Son Became the King and Married a Sea Girl
21. How the Dog Got the Wolf Wear Boots
22. Gustek's Misfortune
23. The Two Brothers
24. Miracle at the Mill
25. Lark and the Wolf
26. The Tale of the Spellbound Pike
27. Ostruda Stone
28. Lazy Girl
29. The Dwarf and the Bear
30. Nobleman and Michal
31. Punished for Guile
32. Misfortune
33. The Ram Brother and Duck Sister
34. The Shepherd
35. About Two Girls, A Kind One and a Wicked One
36. The Girl and the Prince in the Cow's Skin
37. Golden Fish
38. Gold Trot
39. Healing Water
40. Prince and His Helpers
41. About the Cockerel
42. The Fisherman's Son and the Water Man's Daughter
43. Boy and His Dog and Cat, and the Lion Cub
44. The Man Who Went to Ask the Sun
45. The Magic Gun, Fiddle, and the Boots
46. The Glass Hill
47. Fear
48. Titelitury
49. The Tailor's Wife and the Countess
50. How the Slug Defeated the Fox
The book includes more than 40 illustrations.