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The rose and the ring

or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A fireside pantomime for great and small children.

by William Makepeace Thackeray

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"The Rose and the Ring" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a satirical fantasy written in 1854. In the fictional kingdoms of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, four royal cousins find their fates entwined with two magical gifts from the Fairy Blackstick—a ring and a rose that make their wearers irresistibly beautiful. As stolen thrones, mistaken identities, and enchanted love complicate courtly life, princes and princesses must navigate deception, exile, and even a den of lions before discovering their true destinies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”. Retained metadata contains “Fairies” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fairies”· via The Online Books Page
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  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Tales”, and “tales”. Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Fairy tales”· in subject
    • “Tales”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 38 editions; 5 cataloged here.

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The Online Books Page curated catalog record

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ca. 1915

1915———Source listed online copy

Open Library record

1981Macmillan Children'sEnglish
  • 9780333325902
  • 0333325907
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  • Open Library reports 11 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 38 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PR5617 .R6
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PR5617 .R6 1915
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ca. 1915
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