Fairy Tales Tales Literature
Fairy Tales Tales Literature
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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SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages - A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring annotated fairy tales, illustrations, and a forum.
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Propp's Structure of the Magic Tale - Outline of the classical work "Morphology of the Folktale."
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Cinderella Stories - List of online and off-line resources of variations of the Cinderella story, compiled by Kathy Martin.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin - By Robert Browning (1888), illustrated by Kate Greenaway; e-text at Indiana University Libraries.
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Beauty and the Beast - Guide to on-line resources, images, and bibliography.
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A Scholarly Snow White - Includes introduction, interpretations, bibliographies, and comparisons of different versions, prepared by Kay E. Vandergrift, Rutgers University.
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Beauty and the Beast; or, the Ethics of a Fairy Tale - Excerpt from an aesthetic realism seminar, with a discussion of the Madame Leprince De Beaumont story.
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The Fairy Tales and Fables of Ambassador Parlay - Complete original fairy tales and fables.
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Cinderella - A description of the tale with filmography.
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Tom Tit Tot - An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale - By Edward Clodd (1898), at sacred-texts.com
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The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales - Four fairy tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1910); e-text at Bartleby.
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Sleeping Beauty - A description of the folktale.
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Story Origins: Beauty and the Beast - On the many tellings of the story of Beauty and the Beast with references to historical origins.
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Little Red Riding Hood - A description of the folktale.
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A Book of Fairy Tales - A collection of 45 fairy tales.
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Bluebeard - Research devoted to the classic European folktale about a serial wife-murderer.
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Free Public Domain - Online fairy tale books from Andrew Lang, the Grimm brothers, and Hans Christian Andersen.
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