Youth Everlasting and Other Romanian Fairy Tales

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Four spellbinding fairy tales from 19th century Romania, translated into English and adapted for a contemporary audience.

A baby refuses to come into the world until he is promised youth everlasting. But as the boy grows older and his father cannot keep his promise, the young man sets off on the quest of a lifetime…

Follow the quest for Youth Everlasting in this thought-provoking fairy tale from 19th century Romania.

Three additional Romanian fairy tales introduce you to a whole range of magical characters and exhilarating adventures.

Petre Ispirescu was born in 1830 in Bucharest and grew up around Romanian fairy tales. He trained at a publishing house and later used his position to publish several collections of fairy tales. A few of these tales are still part of the literature curriculum in Romania to this day, and they are slowly but surely making their way into the rest of the world.