Blue Bird -- Classics for Primary School Students' Extracurricular Reading

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: What is happiness, where happiness is, The Blue Bird will give you a beautiful answer. The Blue Bird tells the story of Djee and Meejee, children of a woodcutter, who set out to save their neighbor's girl and, guided by the Light God, embark on a journey full of hardships to find the Blue Bird, a symbol of happiness. They set off on Christmas Eve and travel through the Land of Remembrance, the Palace of the Night, the Palace of Pleasure, the Kingdom of the Future, the Cemetery, and the Forest. Finally, when they return home on the eve of Christmas, they discover that the Blue Bird is right there in their own house. When the Blue Bird, having cured the neighbor's girl, suddenly disappears without a trace, the protagonist declares that he knows where the Blue Bird is hiding.