The Big Book of Fairytales & Fantasy Classics
A Treasury of Enchanted Forests, Talking Animals, Folklore, Nonsense, and Gothic Wonder TalesBy Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Andrew Lang, Maurice Maeterlinck, Johnny Gruelle, John Ruskin, Arthur Ransome, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georgette Leblanc, Carl Sandburg, Evelyn Sharp, Marion St. John Webb, J. M. Barrie, R. Nisbet Bain, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Brothers Grimm, W. R. S. Ralston
Length395h 12m
About this audiobook
The Big Book of Fairytales & Fantasy Classics surveys the enduring traffic between wonder, moral fable, dream logic, and the uncanny. Its contents range from folkloric wonder tales and literary fairy stories to whimsical nonsense, symbolic fantasy, and darker narratives of enchantment and transformation. Familiar motifs—bewitched kingdoms, animal guides, impossible journeys, changelings, and tests of courage—are renewed through distinct national traditions and prose styles. The volume's significance lies in its juxtaposition of orally rooted tales with crafted modern classics, revealing fantasy as both popular inheritance and sophisticated literary art. Its contributors form an unusually broad transnational constellation: nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers, folklorists, translators, illustrators, and collectors working across British, Irish, Scandinavian, German, Russian, Belgian, and American contexts. Together they register the Romantic recovery of folklore, the Victorian reinvention of childhood literature, Symbolist explorations of mystery, and the emergence of modern fantasy. Their varied engagements with myth, nursery culture, social satire, spiritual allegory, and imaginative play demonstrate that the fairy tale has never been a static or merely juvenile form. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers seeking a capacious introduction to fairy-tale and fantasy traditions. It offers both pleasure and instruction: a chance to compare narrative voices, cultural assumptions, and changing visions of wonder within one substantial volume. Read consecutively or selectively, it fosters a rich dialogue between inherited folk motifs and literary innovation.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length395 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Christmas Angel (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2The Big Book of Fairytales & Fantasy Classics
3Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 1)
4Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 2)
5Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 3)
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6Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 4)
7Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 5)
8Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 6)
9Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 7)
10Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 8)
11Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 9)
12Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 10)
13Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 11)
14Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 12)
15Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 13)
16Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 14)
17Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 15)
18Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 16)
19Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm
2015 Hansel and Grethel
2129 The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs
2247 The Juniper-Tree
2360 The Two Brothers
2476 The Pink
2592 The King of the Golden Mountain
26107 The Two Travellers
27122 Donkey Cabbages
28138 Knoist and his Three Sons
29171 The Willow-Wren
30192 The Master-Thief
31Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang
32The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 1)
33The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 2)
34The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 3)
35The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 4)
36The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 5)
37The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 6)
38The Red Fairy Book (pt. 1)
39The Red Fairy Book (pt. 2)
40The Red Fairy Book (pt. 3)
41The Red Fairy Book (pt. 4)
42The Red Fairy Book (pt. 5)
43The Red Fairy Book (pt. 6)
44The Green Fairy Book (pt. 1)
45The Green Fairy Book (pt. 2)
46The Green Fairy Book (pt. 3)
47The Green Fairy Book (pt. 4)
48The Green Fairy Book (pt. 5)
49The Yellow Fairy Book (pt. 1)
50The Yellow Fairy Book (pt. 2)
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