THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
by Hans Christian Andersen
FAR away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days
the world's end, stood the Tree of the Sun; a noble tree, such as we
have never seen, and perhaps never may see.
The summit of this tree spread itself for miles like an entire
forest, each of its smal ...