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"The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children" by Maria Edgeworth is a collection of children's stories published in 1796. This pioneering work features tales with memorable titles like "Lazy Lawrence," "The Purple Jar," and "The False Key." The collection gained remarkable popularity, reaching even Queen Victoria, who was reading it months before her coronation. These instructional yet entertaining stories influenced children's literature and earned mentions in classic novels, establishing Edgeworth's reputation for delightful moral tales. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1903

_First printed with Illustrations by Chris Hammond 1897._ _Illustrated Pocket Classics 1903._

INTRODUCTION

Once when the present writer was a very little girl she suffered for a short time from some inflammation of the eyes, which prevented her from reading, or amusing herself in any way. Her father, who had just then returned from the East, in order to help her to pass the weary hours began telling her the story of the 'Forty Thieves,' and when he had finished, and had boiled down the wicked thieves in oil, and when she asked him to tell it all over again, he said that he would try and find something else to amuse her, and looking about the room he took up a volume of the _Parent's Assistant_ which was lying on the table, and began to read aloud the story of the 'Little Merchants.' The story lasted two mornings, and an odd, confused impression still remains in the listener's mind to this day of Naples, Vesuvius, pink and white sugar plums--of a darkened room, of a lonely country house in Belgium, of a sloping garden full of flowers outside the shutters, of the back of a big sofa covered with yellow velvet, and of her father's voice reading on and on. When she visited Naples in after days sh

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