Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

A fairy queen wakes, sees a man with an ass’s head, and calls him an angel. What has happened to Titania—and what will she do next?

In a moonlit wood outside Athens, young lovers flee a cruel law just as the fairy king and queen quarrel over a child. In this retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, E. Nesbit brings Shakespeare’s play within reach of young readers, keeping its magic, mischief and flashes of Shakespeare’s own words. Puck’s flower can make a sleeper love the first thing they see, and one mistake sends affection wildly astray. As the lovers lose their way and Titania falls under the spell, can anyone put things right before morning?

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