The Golden Fish (zolotaia riba) by Pushkin
See: Tale of the fisherman and the little fish and other
Russian stories by Pushkin, and
The Tale
of the Fisherman and the Fish, Wikipedia
 Old man catches a Golden Fish |
 The Golden Fish grants the old man any wish in
exchange for freedom. He asks for bread and releases the fish. |
 The fisherman's wife criticizes him for not getting a
house and sends him back to the sea to catch the fish again. |
 The
old man again catches the fish to get more for his greedy wife. |
 The fisherman's wife is happy with her house, and now wants to be queen. |
 In
the end, she asks for so much that they have nothing, as they
were.en she askes for too much, and get nothing. |
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