Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
10 best books like Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition (Gretchen Schultz): Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, Latin American Folktales, Arab Folktales, A Feast of Sorrows, The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America, Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment, The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood, The Apex Book of World SF 2, Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
Quite a treasury. I liked the numerous short fables even better than the stories. And the introduction, that gives just a bit of historical context, esp. re the rivalry between the Confucians and the Taoists, is helpful.
My favorite is one of the very shortest:
"The Missing Axe
"A...
The wisdom and artistry of Latin America's storytellers preserve one of the world's richest folktale traditions—combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's wife who knew the Devil's secrets, the...
| Author | Inea Bushnaq |
| ISBN | 0394751795 |
While containing a broad sampling of folktales from the Arab people, there are a few problems that consistently bothered me about this book. The author, in her commentary, claims that "the true Arab is the desert nomad," an idea which folklorist Dwight Reynolds has said is culturally inaccurate and...
A Feast of Sorrows—Angela Slatter’s first U.S. collection—features twelve of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning Australian author’s finest, darkest fairy tales, and adds two new novellas to her marvelous cauldron of fiction.
Stories peopled by women and girls—fearless,...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 1555915663 |
Of all the misconceptions and misunderstandings perpetuated about Native peoples, the role of women in traditional cultures is perhaps the most falsely portrayed. The image of the overworked 'squaw'...women as property to be bought, sold, or traded. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Native...
| Author | Howard Norman |
| ISBN | 0375702679 |
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0195178211 |
Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace, and when they recorded these elegant...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415908353 |
"Little Red Riding Hood" has to be one of the most famous fairy tales in existence. Everyone seems to know, though very few people seem to know what it is really about.
It's about sex.
In this book, Jack Zipes examines the history of tale, showing how it progessed from a story about a smart...
An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist...
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction
| Author | Jack Dann |
| ISBN | 0061364088 |
Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607014890 |
Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both inspire writers of speculative...
The Little Book of the Hidden People: Stories of elves from Icelandic folklore
| Author | Alda Sigmundsdóttir |
| ISBN | 9935924882 |
Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there? In this book, author Alda Sigmundsdóttir presents twenty translated elf stories from...
Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
| Author | Gene van Troyer |
| ISBN | 4902075261 |
The time is long overdue to present the work of Japanese science fiction and fantasy writers to the world in English. The first book in a planned series, Speculative Japan presents a selection of outstanding works of Japanese science fiction and fantasy in English translation... and a glimpse into...
The Annotated African American Folktales
| Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| ISBN | 0871407531 |
Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro...
The Apex Book of World SF 4
| Author | Mahvesh Murad |
| ISBN | 1937009335 |
Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories.
From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and...
The Other World, It Whispers
| Author | Stephanie Victoire |
| ISBN | 1784630853 |
From the secrets of the forest, to the magic of the sea, these nine stories tell of what happens when passion, desire, loneliness and imprisonment lead us on a search for freedom and empowerment – no matter what the cost.
A woman makes a deal with gods and goddesses in order to bring a slanderous...
La Belle et la Bête et autres contes
| Author | Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont |
| ISBN | 2203135751 |
Un marchant égaré trouve refuge dans un château désert. Avant de reprendre sa route, il cueille une rose ... Il ne sait pas encore que ce geste anodin va déclencher la fureur de l'habitant des lieux, une bête immonde qui exige pour réparation que le marchand lui livre une de ses filles, la jeune...
Australia has it own mythologies. Some of them were here long before Europeans arrived; some of them are yet to come. Steam-powered bushrangers. Restless penal colonies. Robotic mining operations. Fairy colonies in the gum trees and old ghosts in the laneways. Drought and fire and flood and new life...
Fairies and Fireflies: Bedtime Stories
In the Wide, Wild Field, friendship is bigger than fear, and can be found in the unlikeliest of places.
A butterfly fairy gets a kitten, raids a beehive, and makes friends with a firefly. Urisk the brownie gets a new home, and finds help overcoming his fear of the dark. Fireflies learn that friends...
Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems
| Author | Theodora Goss |
| ISBN | 1732644004 |
A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic—while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is...
The Best Tales of Hoffmann
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 0486217930 |
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was perhaps one of the two or three greatest of all writers of fantasy. His wonderful tales, translated into many languages and adapted into numerous stage works, have delighted readers for a century and a half.
They open our eyes to an extraordinary world of fantasy,...
