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    The Goldsmith's Fortune
    The Goldsmith's Fortune
    The Goldsmith's Fortune
    Audiobook7 minutes

    The Goldsmith's Fortune

    Written by Andrew Lang

    Narrated by Anastasia Bertollo

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    About this audiobook

    This is a story of one goldsmith, living in a village full of bad greedy people. The only person he could communicate to was a cowherd. But every evening the cowherd had to go for a walk with the goldsmith, even though he was very tired. Once he asked another cowherd, could he go to have a quarrel with the goldsmith? That guy advised him to kill a goldsmith’s wife. The cowherd was stupid enough to take the advice and he killed poor woman. When the goldsmith came home and found the wife dead, he propped her up against the wall outside. Do you want to know what for? Then read this fascinating history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmartTouch Media
    Release dateJan 29, 2015
    ISBN9781467605953
    The Goldsmith's Fortune
    Author

    Andrew Lang

    Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 – July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang’s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew’s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang’s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture “On Fairy-Stories.”

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