Cindrulino by L. Milho
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"Cindrulino by L. Milho" is an illustrated children’s fairy-tale retelling in Esperanto, likely written in the early 20th century. Adapted from an English story, it recounts the classic Cinderella tale, focusing on kindness, patience, and forgiveness as virtues that triumph over envy and cruelty. The story follows a gentle girl mistreated by her older stepsisters, who force her to toil and mockingly call her Cindrulino. When a royal ball is announced, her
fairy godmother appears, transforming a pumpkin, a rat, and mice into a carriage, coachman, and footmen, and her rags into a splendid gown with glass slippers, warning her to return before midnight. She captivates the prince at several balls, but on the third night she flees at the stroke of twelve, losing a slipper. The prince vows to marry the one whom the slipper fits; after the stepsisters fail, it fits Cindrulino, who produces the matching shoe. Revealed and restored, she marries the prince, forgives her sisters, becomes a kind queen, and the famous glass slippers are kept as treasured tokens of her story. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Milho, L. |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Rubin, R. |
| Title | Cindrulino |
| Original Publication | Tours: A. Barbot, 1910. |
| Series Title | Ilustrita biblioteko por infanoj, no. 2 |
| Note | Translation of: Cinderella. |
| Credits | Mairi, Richard Illner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 53.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | Esperanto |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Fairy tales |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76310 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-76310-1 |
| Release Date | Jun 15, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 384 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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