18 books like Contes des fées

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Малахитовая шкатулка Pavel Bazhov · 1944 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Tales from the Ural Mountains. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

The bee-man of Orn Frank R. Stockton · 1964 · ★ 3.7 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Moderate When a Sorcerer tells him that he has been transformed from another sort of being, the Bee-man sets out to discover what he was in his earlier incarnation. Story is accompanied by a DVD which provides a behind-the-scenes look at the illustrator at work. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Volksmärchen der Deutschen Johann Karl August Musäus · 1815 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Eine Sammlung von Märchen (besser: Kunstmärchen), Legenden und Sagen in fünf Bänden, die volkstümliche (aber literarisch vermittelte!) und satirische Elemente miteinander verbindet. Inhalt: Die Bücher der Chronika der drei Schwestern Richilde Rolands Knappen Legenden von Rübezahl Die Nymphe des Brunnens Libussa Der geraubte Schleier Liebestreue Stumme Liebe Ulrich mit dem Bühel Dämon… Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Dornröschen Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · 1959 · 29p · ≈ 58m · Moderate Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Tales of Ancient Egypt Roger Lancelyn Green · 1967 · ★ 3.8 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Selected tales evoke the mystery, superstitions, and myths of Egypt under the pharaohs. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Deutsche Sagen Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · 1816 · 648p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Über 580 deutsche Sagen im Volltext, darunter die folgenden: Die drei Bergleute im Kuttenberg Der Berggeist Der Bergmönch im Harz Frau Hollen Teich Frau Holla zieht umher Frau Hollen Bad Frau Holla und der treue Eckart Frau Holla und der Bauer Die Springwurzel Fräulein von Boyneburg Der Pielberg Die Schloßjungfrau Die Schlangenjungfrau Das schwere Kind Der alte Weinkeller bei… Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Fairy tales Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · 1800 · 137p · ≈ 4h · Challenging A collection of fifty tales collected by the German folklorists, including some little-known or previously unpublished. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Baum's American Fairy Tales L. Frank Baum · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Presents fifteen fairy tales, mostly set in America, from a cowboy who stops time to a tale of a magical beetle. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

The light princess, and other fairy tales George MacDonald · 1893 · ★ 4.0 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. The Complete Fairy Tales brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: fairies good and wicked, and children journeying into unsettling dreamworlds or undertaking life-risking labors. But… Shares: Fairy Tales

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon · 1921 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A clever wandering minstrel rescues an imprisoned young lady when she charms the seven man-hating damsels guarding her by telling them stories, one by one. Shares: Fairy Tales

Old-fashioned fairy tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging There was once upon a time a child who had Good Luck for his godfather. “I am not Fortune”, said Good Luck to the parents; “I have no gifts to bestow, but whenever he needs help I will be at hand”. “Nothing could be better”, said the old couple. They were delighted. But what pleases the father often fails to satisfy the son: moreover, every man thinks that he deserves just a little more than he… Shares: Fairy Tales

Rapunzel Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 27p · ≈ 54m · Moderate Ibook project for DTC 375 at Washington State University in Vancouver, Fall 2014. Illustrates the story of Rapunzel followed by a short essay describing the author’s experience with iBooks Author. Shares: Fairy Tales

Tales of old Japan A. B. Mitford · 1871 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Compiled by a British diplomat and published in 1871, "Tales of Old Japan" is an anthology of short stories that makes earlier centuries of Japanese life vibrantly immediate to the contemporary reader. They focus on various facets of everyday existence in ancient Japan, from numerous rituals, like hara-kiri and marriage, to sermons and fairy tales indicative of desirable traits and… Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Tree and Leaf J.R.R. Tolkien · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay 'On Fairy-Stories', Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate it to juvenilia. This is aptly and elegantly illustrated in the haunting short story, 'Leaf by Niggle', which recounts the story of the artist, Niggle, who has 'a long… Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Irish fairy and folk tales William Butler Yeats · 1800 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Includes tales of fairies, changelings, ghosts, witches, saints, the devil, giants, kings, queens, and robbers. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Arabian Nights Andrew Lang · 1898 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging In order to save her life, Sheherazade tells wonderful stories to the sultan. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

The Arabian Nights Andrew Lang · 1946 · ★ 4.0 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Twenty of the traditional tales told by Scheherazade in an attempt to save her life, including The Merchant and the Genie, The Forty Thieves, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

Kinder- und Hausmärchen Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · 1846 · 863p · ≈ 28h · Demanding Reprint of the 1944 Pantheon edition. Shares: Tales, Fairy Tales

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