Directory of Fairy Tales Resources

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Fairy tales (Märchen) are fictional stories which contain elements of magic or the supernatural. Their usual theme is the triumph over difficulty of the one least likely to succeed. Characters are stylized.

Subcategories

• Andersen, Hans Christian
• Arabian Nights
• Brothers Grimm
• Calvino, Italo
• Jacobs, Joseph
• Journals
• Lang, Andrew
• Pentamerone
• Perrault, Charles
• World Tales

Resources in This Category

• A Scholarly Snow White

  http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/snowwhite.html
  Includes introduction, interpretations, bibliographies, and comparisons of different versions, prepared by Kay E. Vandergrift, Rutgers University.

• Beauty and the Beast; or, the Ethics of a Fairy Tale

  http://www.lynetteabel.org/Beauty-and-the-Beast-aesthetics-essay.html
  Excerpt from an aesthetic realism seminar, with a discussion of the Madame Leprince De Beaumont story.

• Fairy Tales

  http://myweb.dal.ca/barkerb/fairies/
  Web resources and bibliography devoted to fairy tales in the written tradition.

• Fairy Tales Collection

  http://fairytalescollection.com/
  Large collection of online transcriptions of the most common fairy tales.

• Propp's Structure of the Magic Tale

  http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie/rae370_proppmagic.html
  Outline of the classical work "Morphology of the Folktale."

• SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages

  http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/
  A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring annotated fairy tales, illustrations, and a forum.

• The Cinderella Bibliography

  http://d.lib.rochester.edu/cinderella
  University of Rochester-sponsored project to document various versions of the Cinderella story throughout history, explore origins of the fairy tale, and offer resources to educators.

• The Pied Piper of Hamelin

  http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/etext/piper/
  By Robert Browning (1888), illustrated by Kate Greenaway; e-text at Indiana University Libraries.

• The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales

  http://www.bartleby.com/76/
  Four fairy tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1910); e-text at Bartleby.

• Tom Tit Tot - An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ttt/
  By Edward Clodd (1898), at sacred-texts.com

• Tonight's Bedtime Story

  http://www.tonightsbedtimestory.com/
  Fairy Tales for Sleepy Children. All the Classic Fairy Tales available online or as free eBooks. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Beatrix Potter, Felix Lorioux, Gustave Dore, Walter Crane and others.

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