~ Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales,
Trickster Tales, Animal Tales, Myths, Legends ~
~ East Asian, Southeast Asian, Asian Indian,
African, Middle Eastern, Scandinavian,
North American, South American ~
"Ashliman has gathered hundreds of tales and grouped them by their Aarne-Thompson tale type. This site is the best place on the web to find tales with related themes across different cultures all in one place. You'll find more than the tales here with biographies of fairy tale writers and links to fairy tale texts all over the web."
"Noodlehead" stories from around the world. "There is some kind of twisted logic to noodlehead stories. Who is really the fool? They reveal a silliness that resides in all of us which often emerges at our most awkward moments. They enable us to laugh at ourselves. And that is why the stories must not told to ridicule or make fun of others."
Below is the complete list of Andersen’s 168 tales, in the chronological order of their original publication. Original Illustrations by
Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frølich
Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Red Fairy Book (1890)
Green Fairy Book (1892)
Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
Pink Fairy Book (1897)
Grey Fairy Book (1900)
Violet Fairy Book (1901)
Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
Brown Fairy Book (1904)
Orange Fairy Book (1906)
Olive Fairy Book (1907)
Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
Rose Fairy Book
Academic article. Free download. "Discusses the career and wide-ranging accomplishments of the Scottish essayist, poet and critic Andrew Lang (1844-1912)"
Academic paper. "This essay traces the strikingly prolific career of Andrew Lang and places that career in the context of the shifting late-Victorian literary field, which Lang served importantly to shape."
U of Rochester. "The scope of this site is amazing. It is impossible to read it all in one sitting. Peck has written a bibliography of stories, illustrations, plays, music, novels, poetry, just about anything and everything related to Cinderella. There is also a generous section devoted to Beauty and the Beast."
