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By: Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848-1927)

Book cover The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology

By: Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883)

Book cover Laboulaye's Fairy Book

By: Clara de Chatelain (1807-1876)

Book cover Bo-Peep Story Books
Book cover Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale

By: Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935)

Book cover The Silly Jelly-Fish

By: Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)

Book cover Wonder-Box Tales

By: Frances Browne (1816-1879)

Granny's Wonderful Chair by Frances Browne 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)

Book cover 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)

Book cover The Admiral's Caravan

By: Evelyn Sharp (1869-1955)

All the Way to Fairyland Fairy Stories by Evelyn Sharp All the Way to Fairyland Fairy Stories

By: Constance Cary Harrison (1843-1920)

The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison 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

Book cover Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore

By: Margaret Waters

Book cover The Little Lame Prince Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters

By: Dandin (6th Century)

Book cover 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

Book cover Dick and His Cat An Old Tale in a New Garb

By: Ethel Cook Eliot (1890-1972)

Book cover 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

Book cover 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

Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes by Dandin 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

Book cover 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

Book cover The Enchanted Island

By: Gertrude Crownfield (1867-1945)

Book cover The Shadow Witch

By: T. H. James

Book cover The Matsuyama Mirror

By: Loretta Ellen Brady

Book cover Green Forest Fairy Book

This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady.

By: Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845-1936)

Peasant Tales of Russia by Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko 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)

Book cover The Garden of the Plynck

By: J. R. de [Illustrator] Rosciszewski

Book cover The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales

By: Louis Dodge (1870-1952)

Book cover Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old

By: Sidney Ransom

Book cover The Great Red Frog

By: Fanny Coe [editor] (1866-1956)

The Book of Stories for the Storyteller by Fanny Coe [editor] 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

Book cover East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon

By: Ada M. Marzials

Book cover More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme

By: Robert Reinick (1805-1852)

Book cover The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter

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