Fairy Tales Tales Literature Folklore

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.

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