Folk and fairy tales exist in all cultures and are at the heart of civilization. The most comprehensive work of its kind, this massive Encyclopedia gives students and general readers a broad, accessible, multicultural survey of folk and fairy tales from around the world.
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, H?nsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of more than 200 enchanting characters included here. Lyrically translated and beautifully illustrated, the tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.
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Fairy Tales From All Nations selected and edited by Anthony R. Montalba
with twenty-four illustrations by Richard Doyle (Rare Book Collection)
The time has been, but happily exists no longer, when it would have been necessary to offer an apology for such a book as this. In those days it was not held that: Beauty is its own excuse for being - on the contrary, a spurious utilitarianism reigned supreme in literature, and fancy and imagination were told to fold their wings, and travel only in the dusty paths of every-day life. Fairy tales, and all such flights into the region of the supernatural, were then condemned as merely idle things, or as pernicious occupations for faculties that should be always directed to serious and profitable concerns.
But now we have cast off that pedantic folly, let us hope for ever. We now acknowledge that innocent amusement is good for its own sake, and we do not affect to prove our advance in civilisation by our incapacity to relish those sportive creations of unrestricted fancy that have been the delight of every generation in every land from times beyond the reach of history. The materials of the following Collection have been carefully chosen from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations.
Among others the Collection includes: Snow-White And Rosy-Red (Danish), Persevere And Prosper (Arabic), Prince Of The Glow-Worms (German), The Two Misers (Hebrew), Prince Chaffinch (French), The Wolf And The Nightingale (Swedish) and The Enchanted Crow (Polish).
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Laboulaye's Fairy Book by Edouard Laboulaye
illustrated by Edward G. McCandlish (Rare Book Collection)
It is said that there is a great scarcity of fairy folk in modern France; and that, terrified by the thunders of the Revolution, they left their unhappy country in a body during its stormy years, first assembling in grateful concourse around the tomb of Perrault, upon whose memory they conferred the boon of immortality.
If this story is true and the last reported act of the fairies on leaving France makes it appear so then we may be sure that a few of the more hardy and adventurous fays skipped back again across the border and hid themselves in Laboulaye's box of jewels, where they give to each gem an even brighter sheen and a more magical luster.
Ten fairy tales include: Yvon and Finette -- The castle of life -- Destiny -- The twelve months -- Swanda, the piper -- The gold bread -- The story of the noses -- The three citrons -- The story of Coquerico -- King Bizarre and Prince Charming
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Favourite French Fairy Tales retold by Barbara Douglas
illustrated by R. Cramer
(Rare Book Collection)
It can be hard to find fairy tale collections that contain the work of the women (such as Beaumont and d'Aulnoy) in the French salons that influenced Charles Perrault. This is one of the best collections, and it includes many of the tales that are mentioned by scholars but hard to locate. None of the stories are watered down and they paint a picture of why fairy tales are an important part of literature. In the end, they are entertaining stories and can be read just for fun, too.
