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Japanese fairy tales
Japanese folktales are somewhat of a loaded term. In commonplace usage, it signifies a certain set of well-known classic tales, with a vague distinction of whether they fit the rigorous definition of folktale or not.
The admixed imposters are literate written pieces, dating back to the Muromachi period (14th-16th centuries) or even earlier times in the Middle Ages. These would not normally…
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The Brown Fairy Book
Thirty-two fairy tales from the folklore of Africa, Australia, Brazil, India, New Caledonia, and Persia.
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The Green Fairy Book
Fairy tales gathered from the folklore of Russia, Germany, Italy, France, China, Scotland, and England.
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The Sleeping Beauty
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The Orange Fairy Book
A collection of fairy tales brought and translated from Rhodesia, Uganda, and Punjaub.
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The Grey Fairy Book
A collection of thirty-five fairy tales from the folklore of Lithuania, Africa, Germany, Greece, and France, and other parts of the world.
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The Olive Fairy Book (Complete & Unabridged)
Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.
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Japanese Fairy Tales
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Volksmärchen der Deutschen
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Dornröschen
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.
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The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
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Old-fashioned fairy tales
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…
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Favourite Greek myths
Favourite Greek myths
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Old Greek Stories
In this book retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures.
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The light princess, and other fairy tales
"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…
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Gods and heroes of the Greeks
Gods and heroes of the Greeks
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The golden shadow
Retells in a continuous narrative the activities and adventures of the Greek gods and goddesses and their relationships with each other and with human beings.
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Rapunzel
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