The nightingale and the rose
(2015)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781911144717 (electronic bk.) MWT11620134, 1911144715 (electronic bk.) 11620134
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A nightingale finds a young romantic student in tears because he cannot find a red rose for his beautiful ball partner. There are no red roses in the garden. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the area, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life. Seeing the student in tears, and valuing his human life above her bird life, the nightingale carries out the ritual
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