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Cinderella is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Henry W. Hewet is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Henry W. Hewet then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
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This is a classic. I read it before when i was a child and it was such a joy to read it again.
Rating: 5 / 5
I agree that it can be morally preachy, but I enjoyed reading a story that differed from the Disney version which everyone thinks is the original and true.
Rating: 4 / 5
This rather over-cute and moralistic version of the ancient Cinderella story was written to emphasize, as many religions do, that virtue should be practiced because it is rewarded. Nine year old Cinderella, whose true name is not revealed, listens to her mother tells her as she is dying to bear everything with patience.
Her father decides to remarry so that his daughter will have a step mother to care for her. He chooses badly and the step mothers with her two daughters mistreat the girl badly. She has to sit among the cinders of the chimney and, therefore, she is called Cinderella or Cinder-Wench.
Nothing more is told about the father. We do not know whether he was still alive during the subsequent episodes. We also do not know how old the girl is in the subsequent episodes. Surely she cannot still be nine.
When the prince arranges a ball and invites everyone, the step sisters have Cinderella prepare cloths for them and give them advice how to act because despite mistreating her, they knew that she had good taste. Cinderella, very virtuously helps her tormentors.
The rest of the tale is well known. Suffice it to add that virtuous Cinderella merited help from the fairy godmother because she treated her well when the fairy came to her disguised as a poor hungry old lady. Cinderella, true to form, later gives her step sisters some of the food that the prince gave her. Also after she married the prince, she arranged good marriages for the two step sisters.
Rating: 4 / 5
i thought this was a very cute version of the story and well worth the read as it is short as well. it has a moral like every good fairytale and is light enough that you could read it to your kids. it is a little sappy but i think that adds to this versions charm.
Rating: 4 / 5
Everybody knows the Cinderella story. Most of us probably also seen the movie. But I have never read the original version. I really enjoy reading the classic fairy tale in its original context. Only wish illustrations can be seen in the kindle version, too.
Rating: 5 / 5