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The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

10 best books like The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Michael Patrick Hearn): African Folktales, Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, Latin American Folktales, Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Folktales from India, French Folktales, Norwegian Folktales, Arab Folktales

African Folktales
AuthorRoger D. Abrahams
Just like the others, I really enjoyed the tales, but not the commentary, which seemed excessive, superficial and a justification for the white scientist to have his name on the cover. Also, the grouping was weird (I would prefer by tribe), and the pictures of art objects seemed to be attached to fairy...
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
AuthorGordon Jarvie
ISBN0140622063
This tiny little thing of a book is adorable!

Firstly I adored the graphic representation of the Scottish accent - “aboot” (about), “leddy” (lady), “oot” (out), “ain” (one), “banes” (bones), and so many others -, I believe it added a feeling of hearing the story directly...
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
AuthorAlison Lurie
Most people think of fairy tales as having been created anonymously and almost magically long ago, and later discovered and recorded by scholars such as the Brothers Grimm. In fact original fairy tales are still being written. Over the last century and a half many well-known authors have used the characters...
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
AuthorMoss Roberts
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...
Latin American Folktales
AuthorJohn Bierhorst
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...
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
AuthorJane Yolen
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) (1986).
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The Iroquois story of "The Flying Head" tells the folktale of a giant head with wings that came out of its cheeks and a mouth full of fangs. This giant head would fly at night looking...
Folktales from India
AuthorA.K. Ramanujan
An enchanting collection of 110 tales, translated from twenty-two different languages, that are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic. Gods disguised as beggars and beasts, animals enacting Machiavellian intrigues, sagacious jesters and magical storytellers,...
French Folktales
AuthorHenri Pourrat
ISBN0679748334
Selected from Henri Pourrat's classic Le tresor des contes, one of the finest folktale collections in the world, these one-hundred-odd legends, fairy tales, devotional pieces, jokes, and animal stories from the rural provinces of France comprise a magical volume. Fairies, changelings, giants,...
Norwegian Folktales
AuthorPeter Christen Asbjørnsen
Long a treasure in Norway, the folktales collected by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe have been acclaimed for their richness of humor, fullness of life, and depth of understanding since they first appeared in translation more than a hundred years ago. The Norwegian folktales, said Jacob...
Arab Folktales
AuthorInea Bushnaq
ISBN0394751795
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...
Irish Folk Tales
AuthorHenry Glassie
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...
Japanese Tales
AuthorRoyall Tyler
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these...
Swedish Folktales and Legends
AuthorLone Thygesen Blecher
ISBN0816645752
Swedish Folktales and Legends is a diverse and representative collection of stories from Sweden's centuries-old folklore tradition. Ranging from the ribald to the romantic, from the rustic to the mythical, these are lively translations of 150 tales drawn from unique sources including the Swedish...
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0415901405
The title of this compilation was misleading. I was expecting fairy tales that somehow turned paradigms on their heads or something that was more of a "revolt." However, this is instead a series of short fairy-tales that were selected to show how this genre was viewed through the Victorian era (e.g.,...
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions
AuthorHoward Norman
ISBN0375702679
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...
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
AuthorNina Auerbach
ISBN0226032043
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
Yiddish Folktales
AuthorBeatrice Silverman Weinreich
Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life,...
Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages
AuthorClaude Lecouteux
ISBN0892810963
Reveals the true nature of medieval belief in the Double of the Soul

• Demonstrates the survival of a pagan belief that each individual owns three souls, including a double that can journey outside the physical body

• Explains the nature of death and the Other World hidden beneath...
Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales
AuthorLyle Saxon
ISBN0882896458
my feelings toward this anthology are as complex as my feelings toward the deep south.



upon reading it, there were various chapters that inspired feelings of a nostalgic homecoming -- the voices in the tales are rich and true and sing out history in tones that are completely unique...
British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler
AuthorKatharine M. Briggs
ISBN0415286026
In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance of beautiful princesses and stout stable...
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