{"date":"May 18","id":"05-18","intro":["Flowers often tire of their stationary life and sometimes at night frolic away to a ball in a beautiful castle. Thus a fanciful storyteller accounts for their drooping condition in the morning."],"minutes":15,"readings":[{"author":"Hans Christian Andersen","end":341,"start":334,"volume":17,"work":"Tales"}],"slug":"may-18","status":"proofread","title":"The Night Life of Flowers","url":"/harvard-classics/may-18/","words":2981}