18/01/2009

Resources






Below are the best resources on the web for fairytales and folktales. For Grimm, Perrault, Jacobs and Andersen, I give links to continuous texts, and to sites which present complete lists hyperlinked to individual tales.






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Lang - A complete index through to full stories of everything in the influential Fairy Books of Andrew Lang with some notes on sources
(a kind of meta-collection) -

http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/index.htm

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Grimm -

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/grimm10a.txt

http://myweb.dal.ca/barkerb/fairies/grimm/

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms.html
(with all the original editorial material)

http://oaks.nvg.org/grimm-tales.html
(with a useful notation for the “top five”)

http://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/titles (alphabetical)

http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmsf/
(English / German parallel texts)

http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms-toc.html

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Perrault

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault.html

The Tales of Mother Goose -

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17208/17208-h/17208-h.htm

from The Tales of Mother Goose -

Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre (Cinderella) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault06.html
Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault02.html
La Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault01.html
Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté (Puss in Boots) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault04.html
La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault03.html
Le Petit Poucet (Hop o' My Thumb / Little Thumb) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault08.html
Les Fées (Diamonds and Toads) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault05.html
Riquet à la houppe (Ricky of the Tuft) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault07.html

other -

La Marquise de Salusses ou la Patience de Griselidis (Patient Griselda) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault09.html
Les Souhaits ridicules (The Ridiculous Wishes) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0750a.html - perrault
Peau d'Âne (Donkeyskin)
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault11.html

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Joseph Jacobs

A list of all his tales-
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#ENGLISH

English Fairy Tales (including The Three Little Piggies, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Story of the Three Bears, Tom Thumb, Dick Whittington) –
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8eftl10.txt

More English Fairy Tales (including a version of The Pied Piper) -
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14241/14241-h/14241-h.htm

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Hans Christian Andersen

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27200/27200.txt

http://hca.gilead.org.il/
(with a useful notation for the most popular)

http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/index_e.html

http://www.andersenstories.com/en/andersen_fairy-tales/titles (alphabetical)

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Madame d’Aulnoy (and much more) –

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/daulnoy.html

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Other great sites

http://www.tonightsbedtimestory.com/category/authors/

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

http://oaks.nvg.org/pega4.html

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1001 Nights -

Burton
(the famous Richard Burton translation)
Payne
(the John Payne translation)

Interestingly the most well known in the west were not in the original collections but were added by European translators, though they are genuine Arabian tales -

Aladdin
Burton Lang
Ali Baba
Burton Lang
Sinbad
Burton Payne

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Russian Folktales

Alexander Afanasiev - I have, as yet, no great links apart from -
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22373/22373-h/22373-h.htm
Ransome - Baba Yaga The Firebird
Baba Yaga and Vasilissa
Koshchei the Deathless

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Aesop’s Fables

http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/index.htm

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