Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

This CD contains 88 collections of fairy tales and folk tales (including all the Andrew Lang fairy books), plus 5 books about fairy and folk tales.

By "fairy tales" I mean story for the sake of story, usually with magical content, traditionally told to children. I also include tales associated with particular countries or cultures that might have some anthropological value. And in addition to story collections, I include a few books about fairy tales and folk tales. I avoid myths (which border on religion) and legends (which border on history), but the borderlines are fuzzy.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents

Fairy and Folk Tales (story for the sake of story)

• Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Tales by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Edward Everett Hale
• The Christmas Fairy by John Strange Winter and Other Stories by Frances Crompton and Mrs. Molesworth
• The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg
• The Counterpane Fairy by Katharine Pyle
• The Enchanted Castle by Hartwell James
• The Fairy Book by Sophie May
• The Faery Tales of Weir by Anna McClure Sholl
• The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales, 1851 by Mrs. Alfred Gatty
• Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Fairy Book by Miss Mulock (AKA Maria Dinah Craik)
• Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Favorite Fairy Tales, arranged by Logan Marshall
• The Flower Basket, a Fairy Tale
• Folk Tales Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• The Firelight Fairy Book by Henry Beston
• The Golden Spears and Other Fairy Tales by Edmund Leamy
• The Junior Classics edited by William Patten, volume 1 -- Fairy and Wonder
• Laboulaye's Fairy Book
• The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by George MacDonald
• The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot
• My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales edited by Captain Edric Vredenburg
• The Sea Fairies by Frank Baum
• Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore selected by Laure Claire Foucher
• Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle
• Wonderwings and Other Fairy Stories by Edith Howes
• Andrew Lang
• The Blue Fairy Book
• The Brown Fairy Book
• The Crimson Fairy Book
• The Green Fairy Book
• The Grey Fairy Book
• The Lilac Fairy Book
• The Olive Fairy Book
• The Orange Fairy Book
• The Pink Fairy Book
• The Red Fairy Book
• The Violet Fairy Book
• The Yellow Fairy Book

Tales associated with particular cultures and countries, with perhaps some anthropological interest

• American and Native American
• Algonquin Indian Tales, collected by Egerton Young
• American Fairy Tales by Frank Baum
• Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
• Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
• The Indian [Native American] Fairy Book by Cornelius Mathews
• Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs)
• The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockert
• Arabic
• Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon
• Brazil
• Fairy Tales from Brazil, Howa nd Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore by Elsie Spicer Eells, 1917
• Tales of Giants from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eells
• British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Celtic
• Celtic Tales Told to Children by Louey Chisolm
• English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
• English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel
• Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost
• Fians, Fairies and Picts by David MacRitchie
• Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland
• Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
• Welsh Fairy Tales edited by P.H. Emerson
• Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis, 1921
• Welsh Folk-Lore, collected by Elias Owen
• Chinese
• Chinese Folk-Lore Tales by J. Macgowan
• Dutch
• Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis
• Eskimo
• Eskimo Folk-Tales collected by Knud Rasmussen
• French
• Folk-Tales of Napoleon, translated by George Kennan
• German
• Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes
• Grimm's Fairy Stories, 1922
• Greek
• The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley
• Old Greek Folk Tales told anew by Josephine Preston Peabody, 1897
• Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin
• Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Hawaiian
• Hawaiian Folk Tales compiled by Thomas G. Thrum
• India
• Deccan Nursery Tales or Fairy Tales of the South [of India] by C.A. Kincaid, 1914
• The Folklore of the Santal Pangana, translated by Cecil Henry Bompas
• Indian Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs
• Japanese
• Battle of the Monkey and the Crab (japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 3)
• Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
• Persian
• The Cat and the Mouse, a Book of Persian Fairy Tales edited by Hartwell James, 1906
• Philippine
• Filippino Popular Tales
• Philippine Folk Tales by Mabel Cole
• Philippine Folk Tales by Carla Bayliss et al.
• Philippine Folklore Stories by John Miller
• Romanian
• Roumanian Fairy Tales, collected by Mite Kermnitz
• Russian
• Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexandre Chodsko
• Folk Tales from the Russian, retold by Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal
• Russian Fairy Tales by W.R.S. Ralston
• Scandinavian and Norse
• Folk-Lore and Legends Scandinavian by W.W. Gibbings
• Popular Tales from the Norse by George Dasent
• Yugoslav
• The Laughing Prince, a book of Jugoslav fairy tales, retold by Parker Fillmore

Books about Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

• Fairy Tales, their origin and meaning by John Thackeray Bunce
• Folk Lore or Superstition, Beliefs in the West of Scotland
• Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
• A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B. Green
• The Science of Fairy Tales, an Inquiry into Fairy Mytholgoy by Edwin Sidney Hartland, 1891
• A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura Kready
• A Study inTinguian Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole