The stories included ones from Grimm, Andersen, Perrault and others: I remember these for sure: Rapunzel, Thumbelina, The Seven Little Kids, The Goose-Girl, Littel Ida's Flowers, Jorinda and Joringel, Donkey-Skin, Beauty and the Beast, The Sheperdhess and the Chimney Sweep, Ricky-of-the-Tuft, Rumpelstiltskin, The Flying Trunk, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin, The Little Nightingale, The Brave Little Tailor, Cinderella, The Magic Tinder Box, The Frog Prince, Snow White and Rose Red, Goldilocks.

I am certain all of these were included as well as several others - it was a very extensive collection, beautifully illustrated (with costumes ranging from centuries ago). If anyone has any idea what it could be, I would really appreciate your response. Thank you!

1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
2. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possesion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
3. "Call me Ishmael."
4. "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."
5. "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road..."
6. "3 May--Bistritz Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May..."
7. "One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman..."
8. "Howard Roark laughed."
9. "You like to have some cup of tea?"
10. "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."