Fairy Tales

In this illuninating work, a leading expert in the field of folklore guides readers through 26 fairy tales, exploring their historical origins, their cultural complexities, and their psychological effects on children.

Also available in print.
Call number: GR 335 .B355 2010

First published in 1986..
Feminist fairy tales for young (and old) readers. New takes on old tales.

Many of these tales are found in collections by Joseph Jacobs.

"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and forces we cannot see.

"An anthology of Russian and Soviet fairy tales"

A collection of 67 literary fairy tales for adults from some of the greatest European and American authors, including Rousseau, Goethe, Yeats, Thackeray, Twain, and Thurber.

A collection of classic Victorian fairy tales by such authors as John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde.

introd. by Padraic Colum ; folkloristic commentary by Joseph Campbell .".. based on the translation by Margaret Hunt ... thoroughly revised, corrected and completed by James Stern"--T.p. verso.

translated by Ralph Manheim

Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Contents: The Sleeping beauty in the wood -- Puss in boots -- Little Tom Thumb -- The Fairies -- Ricky of the tuft -- Cinderella -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Blue Beard -- The Ridiculous wishes -- Donkey-skin -- Patient Griselda -- Beauty and the beast -- The Friendly frog -- Princess Rosette.

Many different editions of The Arabian Nights Entertainments are available free online from the Hathi Trust. This is the 1898 edition selected & edited by Andrew Lang.

Sir Richard Burton's famous translation of The thousand nights and a night, with modernized spelling and punctuation ; with new illustrations and decorations by Steele Savage.

A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars. I

Diana Crone Frank, a Danish novelist and linguist, and Jeffrey Frank, a novelist and editor at the New Yorker, offer a much-needed modern translation. In this collection are twenty-two tales that best represent Andersen's literary legacy, including such classics as "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," and "The Emperor's New Clothes," as well as largely unfamiliar stories like "By the Outermost Sea." Illuminating notes clarify references in the tales.

Includes, among many others, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, and The Story of the Three Bears.