The Greatest Fairytales Of All Time
A Treasury of Enchanted Folklore, Magical Quests, Dreamlike Adventures, and Timeless Moral FablesBy Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Marion St. John Webb, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, R. Nisbet Bain, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome, L. Frank Baum
Length395h 19m
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The Greatest Fairytales Of All Time gathers a capacious international canon of wonder tales, literary fantasies, nursery narratives, and modern fairy-story revisions. Its range extends from folklore-inflected quests and enchanted transformations to dream logic, moral allegory, nonsense, and theatrical symbolism. Familiar figures—witches, talking animals, lost children, princesses, and improbable travelers—appear alongside darker meditations on desire, poverty, cruelty, and social belonging. By placing enduring tales of glass slippers, rabbit holes, magical kingdoms, and perilous bargains in one volume, the collection illuminates the fairy tale as both communal inheritance and adaptable literary form. The contributors represent a remarkable convergence of collectors, translators, children's writers, poets, dramatists, and imaginative prose stylists from European and American traditions. Folkloric preservation and retelling intersect here with Victorian fantasy, Symbolist drama, American mythmaking, and early twentieth-century children's literature. These varied voices reveal how orally transmitted materials were reshaped for print, pedagogy, performance, and new reading publics, while retaining the genre's elemental patterns of trial, metamorphosis, and return. Recommended for students, general readers, and lovers of imaginative literature, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare traditions and styles within a single volume. Its breadth encourages readers to trace recurring motifs across cultural settings, assess changing ideals of childhood and morality, and enter the productive dialogue between folk narrative and literary invention.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length395 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Christmas Every Day and Other Stories (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 1)
3Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 2)
4Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 3)
5Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 4)
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6Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 5)
7Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 6)
8Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 7)
9Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 8)
10Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 9)
11Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 10)
12Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 11)
13Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 12)
14Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 13)
15Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 14)
16Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 15)
17Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (pt. 16)
18Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm
1915 Hansel and Grethel
2029 The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs
2147 The Juniper-Tree
2260 The Two Brothers
2376 The Pink
2492 The King of the Golden Mountain
25107 The Two Travellers
26122 Donkey Cabbages
27138 Knoist and his Three Sons
28171 The Willow-Wren
29192 The Master-Thief
30Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang
31The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 1)
32The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 2)
33The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 3)
34The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 4)
35The Blue Fairy Book (pt. 5)
36CHAPTER II
37CHAPTER III
38CHAPTER IV
39CHAPTER V
40The Red Fairy Book (pt. 1)
41The Red Fairy Book (pt. 2)
42The Red Fairy Book (pt. 3)
43The Red Fairy Book (pt. 4)
44The Red Fairy Book (pt. 5)
45The Red Fairy Book (pt. 6)
46The Green Fairy Book (pt. 1)
47The Green Fairy Book (pt. 2)
48The Green Fairy Book (pt. 3)
49The Green Fairy Book (pt. 4)
50The Green Fairy Book (pt. 5)
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