The King of the Golden River (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Ruskin
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Fairy tale
- Type of Plot: Heroic adventure
- Time of Work: The legendary past
- Setting: Stiria
- Principal Characters: Schwartz, Hans, Gluck, The South-west Wind, The King of the Golden River
- Genres: Long fiction, Short fiction, Adventure, Fairy tale
- Subjects: Justice, Magic or magicians, Nature, Supernatural, Other worlds, Brothers, Good and evil, Rulers, Greed, Folklore, Rivers or waterways, Cruelty, Disasters, Natural disasters, Austria or Austrians, Wealth, Gold, Precious metals or stones, Fairy tales, Droughts, Wind
- Locales: Stiria (fictive)
The Story:
In the ancient country of Stiria, there lay a beautiful and fertile valley called Treasure Valley. Surrounded on all sides by high mountainous peaks, the region never knew famine. No matter what droughts or floods attacked the land beyond the mountains, Treasure Valley produced bountiful crops of apples, hay, grapes, and honey. Above the valley, beautiful cataracts fell in torrents. One of these shone like gold in the sunlight and thus was named the Golden River.
Treasure Valley was owned by three brothers, Schwartz, Hans, and Gluck. Schwartz and Hans, the...
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