La Fée aux miettes [The Crumb Fairy]

La Fée aux miettes. [The Crumb Fairy] by Charles Nodier

Part fantasy, part fairy tale, this novel chronicles the adventures of Michel, a young man under the protection of the crumb fairy, an ugly old woman with two long teeth. Once Michel and the fairy are married, however, he finds that in his dreams she appears as the beautiful and youthful Queen of Sheba. To restore the crumb fairy to her former state, Michel sets off to find the singing Mandragore flower.

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(French) Nodier, Charles. La Fée aux miettes. [The Crumb Fairy]. Smarra, Trilby et autres contes. [Smarra, Trilby and Other Tales]. Ed. Jean-Luc Steinmetz. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1980. 209-407.