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The Dark Princess

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 11

Author

Richard
Kennedy

Appeared in

Collected Stories

Story Summary

A young blind princess is so beautiful that she must be viewed through a dark glass lest her suitors die at the site of her. Everyone refuses to look directly at her except the simple court jester who proves his love by accepting blindness with tragic consequences.