The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish by Alexander Pushkin. Short summary

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One day an old fisherman caught a goldfish that promises to grant any wish. He lets the fish go. The old man’s wife learns of this and sends her husband to the fish to make his wish come true.

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The old fisherman has caught a goldfish. The fish asks to be released and promises to grant the wish. The fisherman refuses the payoff and lets her go.

He tells his wife what has happened. The old woman scolds her husband and tells him to beg for a new fish-pot. He follows his wife’s orders. When he returns home, the old woman sends him to the fish to ask for a new house. On returning, the fisherman sees that there is a new hut instead of the old one.

The old woman again sends him to the fish to make her a columnar noblewoman. The fish carries out the old man’s request. After a while she sends her husband to the fish again to make her a free queen. The old man returns home and sees the Tsar’s chambers, in which his old woman sits surrounded by guards.

The old woman once again sends the old man to ask her to make her a sea lord, and the goldfish would be on her parcels. This time the fish says nothing back. When the old man returns, he sees the dilapidated dugout again.

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