Fairy Tales Tales Literature

Fairy Tales Tales Literature

Fairy Tales

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.

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- A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring annotated fairy tales, illustrations, and a forum.

- Antelope Publishing brings well loved and lesser known fairytales to life with electronic enhancement.
- List of online and off-line resources of variations of the Cinderella story, compiled by Kathy Martin.
- Analyses of folk tale type AT 310 by students of Carleton College.
- A text and image archive containing several English versions of the fairy tale, from the University of Southern Mississippi.
- A description of the tale with filmography.
- Guide to classic fairy tales on the net.
- A collection of 45 fairy tales.
- A description of the folktale.
- Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 361 by students of Carleton College.
- Research devoted to the classic European folktale about a serial wife-murderer.
- Introduction, variants and bibliography (in English and German).
- A description of the folktale.
- Course web page from Wesleyan University, including the French Fairy Tale student project and a list of online resources.
- Includes introduction, interpretations, bibliographies, and comparisons of different versions, prepared by Kay E. Vandergrift, Rutgers University.
- A text and image archive containing sixteen English versions of the fairy tale, from the University of Southern Mississippi.
- Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 410 by students of Carleton College.
- Online fairy tale books from Andrew Lang, the Grimm brothers, and Hans Christian Andersen.
- Four fairy tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1910); e-text at Bartleby.
- Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 552 by students of Carleton College.
- Southern history and tradition through the eyes of Eulahlie, a Cajun girl.
- On the many tellings of the story of Beauty and the Beast with references to historical origins.
- Plain text files of tales of the Grimm Brothers, the Arabian Nights, and H. C. Andersen, as well as fables.
- Northern State University course materials on the history and interpretation of fairy tales with annotated bibliography.
- By Edward Clodd (1898), at sacred-texts.com
- A text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale, from the University of Southern Mississippi.
- By Robert Browning (1888), illustrated by Kate Greenaway; e-text at Indiana University Libraries.
- Outline of the classical work "Morphology of the Folktale."
- Texts and analyses of folk tale type AT 440 by students of Carleton College.
- Complete original fairy tales and fables.
- Guide to on-line resources, images, and bibliography.

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