Jack goes into town to sell his horse to support his uncle's farm. The book tells a story about a young man name Jack a farm boy who rescue a princess from a race from the giants. The book was also made into a film directed by Bryan singer. moreĢ013 American heroic fantasy adventure film based on the British fairy tales Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk. and gets the chance to be a legend himself. War Unleashed on the earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing Jack into the battle of his life to stop them.įighting for a kingdom, its people and the love of a princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only exist in legend. When a traitor of the country the would be crown king want to rule the world under some legendary crown. Fighting for a kingdom, its people and the love of a princess, he comes face to face with the An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand, Jack, unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. War Unleashed on the earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. About.An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand, Jack, unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.
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This page has been created by Philipp Lenssen.Īt Amazon: The Golden Book of Fairy TalesĪuthorama - Classic Literature, free of copyright. This complete e-book of English Fairy Tales, collected and edited by This they made a declaration he should henceforth be termed Jack then filled up the pit with earth, and went to search the cave, On the very crown of his head, and killed him on the spot. Giant for a while, he gave him a most weighty knock with his pickaxe
No other diet serve you but poor Jack?” Then having tantalised the Words: what do you think now of broiling me for your breakfast? Will Into Lob’s Pound, where I will surely plague you for your threatening Giant,” quoth Jack, “where are you now? Oh, faith, you are gotten now The pit, and made the very foundations of the Mount to shake. Will have, and this it shall be, I will take you whole and broil youįor breakfast.” He had no sooner uttered this, than he tumbled into Here to disturb my rest? You shall pay dearly for this. Rushed from his cave, crying: “You incorrigible villain, are you come Giant’s lodging, and, just at the break of day, he put the horn to his Placed himself on the opposite side of the pit, farthest from the Little mould over it, so that it appeared like plain ground. The beginning of a dark winter’s evening, when he fell to work, andīefore morning had dug a pit twenty-two feet deep, and nearly asīroad, covering it over with long sticks and straw. So he got a horn, shovel, and pickaxe, and went over to the Mount in Said, “will be the reward.” Quoth Jack: “Then let me undertake it.” Given to the man who kills Cormoran?” “The giant’s treasure,” they One day Jack happened to be at the town-hall when the magistrates were Years, so that all Cornwall was in despair. Their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his backĪt a time and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round Land, where he would furnish himself with whatever came in his way.Įverybody at his approach ran out of their houses, while he seized on The Mount, and whenever he wanted food he would wade over to the main.
The waist, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the He was eighteen feet in height, and about three yards round In those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge giant namedĬormoran. He was brisk and of a ready lively wit, so that nobody or When good King Arthur reigned, there lived near the Land’s End ofĮngland, in the county of Cornwall, a farmer who had one only sonĬalled Jack.
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