Book Summary: A series of fairy tales with beautiful sensory details and material descriptions. These stories involve opulance, struggles with acceptability and commentaries on class inequality.
Summary of Story Three (The Fisherman and His Soul): A fisherman willingly parts with his Soul to be with a mermaid. His Soul is a useless abstraction with no bearing on the real or material world. It travels the earth, and gains many experiences in exotic locations and cities. But being abandoned and parted from the body, the Soul completes its travel with no heart nor love.