Wilhelm Hauff 2 hr 13 min read

The Little Glass Man, the Caliph Stork, Little Muck, Nose the Dwarf, a treasury of German fairy tales gathered by the Fairy Queen turned publisher, for the delight of children.

Wilhelm Hauff's tales (this 1894 English edition) gather the beloved wonder-stories of a great German Romantic. Enchanting, inventive, timeless. Read it for classic fairy tales that shaped European fantasy, a charcoal-burner's bargain with a forest spirit, a caliph transformed to a stork, and other marvels, brimming with magic and moral wit.

In its time

Published in 1827, during the 1820s, tales of mesmerism, ghosts, and the fantastic voyage flourish in the romantic imagination.

Reading it

2 hr 13 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).