The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts
Classic Fairy Tales of Enchanted Animals, Dragons, Talking Creatures, and Transformative WonderBy E. Nesbit, L. Frank Baum, George MacDonald, Louisa May Alcott, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Oscar Wilde, Frances Jenkins Olcott, Frank R. Stockton, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Abbie Phillips Walker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Matěj Mikšíček, Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Katharine Pyle, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Kenneth Grahame
Length100h 21m
About this audiobook
The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts gathers fairy tale, literary fantasy, folklore, and children's fiction into a capacious bestiary of enchanted animals and uncanny transformations. Its range extends from courtly wonder tales and Grimm-inflected folk narratives to Victorian dreamscapes, moral fables, comic inventions, and proto-modern fantasies. Talking creatures, shape-shifters, dragons, and animal guides become vehicles for exploring fear, desire, ethical responsibility, and the porous boundary between the human and nonhuman. The collection's particular strength lies in its juxtaposition of canonical fairy-tale traditions with less familiar Central European and Anglophone imaginings. Its contributors represent a broad international genealogy of the fantastic: folklorists and adaptors working from oral traditions stand beside major architects of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century children's literature. Across French, German, Danish, British, American, Czech, and Polish contexts, these voices illuminate Romanticism's fascination with nature and the uncanny, the fairy-tale revival, and the emergence of modern fantasy as a distinct literary mode. Their differing cultural inheritances make magical beasts at once comic companions, moral emblems, and agents of disruption. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this volume offers an unusually rich encounter with the many forms animal magic can assume. It rewards comparative reading, invites reflection on folklore and literary adaptation, and fosters a lively dialogue among traditions, styles, and imaginative worlds.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length100 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 14, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Swedish Fairy Book (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
2The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts
3My Father's Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett)
4The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Grahame)
5The Book of Dragons (E. Nesbit):
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6The Book of Beasts
7Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger
8The Deliverers of Their Country
9The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told
10The Island of the Nine Whirlpools
11The Dragon Tamers
12The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold
13Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice
14Five Children and It (E. Nesbit) (pt. 1)
15Five Children and It (E. Nesbit) (pt. 2)
16Five Children and It (E. Nesbit) (pt. 3)
17The Phoenix and the Carpet (E. Nesbit) (pt. 1)
18The Phoenix and the Carpet (E. Nesbit) (pt. 2)
19The Phoenix and the Carpet (E. Nesbit) (pt. 3)
20The Phoenix and the Carpet (E. Nesbit) (pt. 4)
21Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) (pt. 1)
22Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) (pt. 2)
23Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll) (pt. 1)
24Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll) (pt. 2)
25The Scarecrow of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
2611. The Wicked King and Googly-Goo
2724. The Royal Reception
28The Magical Monarch of Mo (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
29The Magical Monarch of Mo (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
30The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (L. Frank Baum)
3113. Rob Loses His Treasures
32The Sea Fairies (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 1)
33The Sea Fairies (L. Frank Baum) (pt. 2)
34Prince Mud-Turtle (L. Frank Baum)
35The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
36The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
37The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
38The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald) (pt. 1)
39The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald) (pt. 2)
40The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald) (pt. 3)
41Lilybell and Thistledown (Louisa May Alcott)
42Ripple, The Water Sprite (Louisa May Alcott)
43The Brownie And The Princess (Louisa May Alcott)
44Mermaids (Louisa May Alcott)
45Snow-White and Rose-Red (Brothers Grimm)
46Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs (Brothers Grimm)
47Rumpelstiltskin (Brothers Grimm)
48The Young Giant (Brothers Grimm)
49The Valiant Little Tailor (Brothers Grimm)
50The Giant and the Tailor (Brothers Grimm)
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