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Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Joseph Grimm
Category: Children's | Series: The\Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sle ...Show more
Gods & Heroes Of Ancient Greece by Schwab Gustav
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy. These stories of heroes and powerful gods and goddesses ...Show more
Irish Folk Tales by Henry Glassie; Henry H. Glassie
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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 ...Show more
Russian Fairy Tales by Aleksandr Afanas'ev (ed.); Roman Jakobson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
The most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to such uniquely Russian characters such as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. Beautifully illustrated, the more than 175 tal ...Show more
The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Category: Classic | Series: The\Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the pre-Christian Scandinavian world vividly to life. Gods, humans, and monstrous beasts engage in prodigious drinking bouts, contests of strength, greedy schemes for gold, and lusty encounters. Included are tales of Odin, the wisest and most fearsome of all ...Show more
The Victorian Fairy Tale Book by Michael Patrick Hearn
Category: Classic | Series: The\Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
From Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme's The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them a ...Show more
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