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By: Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848-1927) | |
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The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology |
By: Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883) | |
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Laboulaye's Fairy Book |
By: Clara de Chatelain (1807-1876) | |
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Bo-Peep Story Books | |
Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale |
By: Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935) | |
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The Silly Jelly-Fish |
By: Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) | |
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Wonder-Box Tales |
By: Frances Browne (1816-1879) | |
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Granny's Wonderful Chair
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book of fairy stories and has been translated into many languages. This work, read as a child by Frances Hodgson Burnett, inspired the writings of Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories |
By: Willis George Emerson (1856-1918) | |
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Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a world peopled with giants. |
By: Charles E. Carryl (1841-1920) | |
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The Admiral's Caravan |
By: Evelyn Sharp (1869-1955) | |
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All the Way to Fairyland Fairy Stories |
By: Constance Cary Harrison (1843-1920) | |
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The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book
"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch and the ogre; and please don't have any moral, only let everybody 'live in peace and die in a pot of grease,' at the end of it... |
By: Ada [Illustrator] Budell | |
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Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore |
By: Margaret Waters | |
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The Little Lame Prince Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters |
By: Dandin (6th Century) | |
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Twenty Two Goblins
These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a riddle. If Vikram cannot answer the question correctly, the vampire consents to remain in captivity. If the king answers the question correctly, the vampire would escape and return to his tree. In some variations, the king is required to speak if he knows the answer, else his head will burst... |
By: Mary Ellis | |
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Dick and His Cat An Old Tale in a New Garb |
By: Ethel Cook Eliot (1890-1972) | |
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Little House in the Fairy Wood
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature, and happiness. |
By: Unknown | |
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Fall of the Nibelungs
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the destruction of the Burgundians, a Germanic tribe, in 436 by mercenary Huns recruited for the task by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius. The introduction to the 1908 edition summarizes the story, "And so 'the discord of two women,' to quote Carlyle, 'is as a little... |
By: Dandin | |
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Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated by the men themselves. These narratives are replete with accounts of demigods, ghosts, gamblers, intrigues with voluptious women, astonishing coincidences, cockfights, anthropophagy, sorcery, robberies, murders and wars. |
By: Henry [Editor] Altemus | |
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The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! |
By: Fannie Louise Apjohn | |
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The Enchanted Island |
By: Gertrude Crownfield (1867-1945) | |
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The Shadow Witch |
By: T. H. James | |
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The Matsuyama Mirror |
By: Loretta Ellen Brady | |
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Green Forest Fairy Book
This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. |
By: Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845-1936) | |
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Peasant Tales of Russia
Collection of Russian peasant tales: "The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. "Mahmoud's Family" - Escaping prisoners of war should be shot, but Mahmoud has a family. "A Misunderstanding" - A young woman seeks escape from her past, in a convent. "The Luck of Ivan the Forgetful" - An incorrigible criminal escapes from a sentence of hard labor to find freedom and perhaps a kind of redemption in the forest. |
By: Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960) | |
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The Garden of the Plynck |
By: J. R. de [Illustrator] Rosciszewski | |
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The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales |
By: Louis Dodge (1870-1952) | |
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Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old |
By: Sidney Ransom | |
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The Great Red Frog |
By: Fanny Coe [editor] (1866-1956) | |
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The Book of Stories for the Storyteller
This is a delightful collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe. They are mostly short and are fun to listen to by children and adults and most teach valuable lessons about life. Some of the stories are: A Legend of the North Wind; How the Robin's Breast became Red; The Little Rabbits; St Christopher; The Necklace of Truth; A Night with Santa Claus; The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe; Pocahontas and How Molly spent her Sixpence |
By: Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen | |
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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon |
By: Ada M. Marzials | |
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More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme |
By: Robert Reinick (1805-1852) | |
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The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter |