Project Gutenberg 2011-08-05 Public domain in the USA. 67 Hatton, Bessie Margetson, W. H. (William Henry) 1861 1940 Margetson, William Henry The Village of Youth, and Other Fairy Tales Reading ease score: 81.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. The Village of Youth -- A child of the winds -- The flower than reached the Sun-lands -- The Garden of Innocence -- A Christmas rose -- The windflower. Produced by Delphine Lettau, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Village of Youth, and Other Fairy Tales" by Bessie Hatton is a collection of fairy tales written in the late 19th century. The stories blend elements of fantasy, morality, and whimsy, featuring themes of youth, love, and the bittersweet nature of life. One key tale, "The Village of Youth," follows a young King who, despite having a perfect palace and a devoted fiancée named Rowena, becomes consumed by the fear of aging and loses his capacity for joy as he separates himself from the elderly members of his kingdom. At the start of the first story, the King’s fear of age drives him to divide his realm into a "Village of Youth" and a corresponding area for the elderly, leaving him increasingly isolated. His betrothed, Princess Rowena, shares in his despair, and together with the beautiful Lady Beryl—who seeks to resolve the King's melancholy—a plan is crafted to confront Time itself. Beryl embarks on a quest to discover how to stave off aging, driven by her desire to keep the kingdom forever youthful. This opening sets a stage filled with rich imagery and thoughtful dialogue about youth versus age, mastery over time, and ultimately, the acceptance of the natural cycles of life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/36977/36977-h/images/cover.jpg en Fairy tales PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 202547 202493 2024-10-15T15:01:04.075787 2023-09-16T07:28:51.758215 text/html text/html 201813 2021-01-08T00:37:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1501531 2021-01-08T00:37:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1578330 2024-10-15T15:01:08.267798 application/epub+zip 1578939 2024-10-15T15:01:04.784910 application/epub+zip 114774 2024-10-15T15:01:04.403788 application/epub+zip 1638903 2024-10-15T15:01:10.824771 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1617886 2024-10-15T15:01:07.679792 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 157182 2022-09-17T04:26:25.776609 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 174421 174316 2024-10-15T15:01:03.458780 2023-09-16T07:28:51.262253 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 174231 2021-01-08T00:37:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 67277 2021-01-08T00:37:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 174227 2021-01-08T00:37:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 67234 2021-01-08T00:37:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21797 2024-10-15T15:01:10.967746 application/rdf+xml 10252 2024-10-15T15:01:04.489766 image/jpeg 1873 2024-10-15T15:01:04.447807 image/jpeg 1534911 2024-10-15T15:01:04.169779 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog