PDF Books in Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The Magic Fish-Bone
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens has wrote very few fairy stories and The Magic Fish-bone is one of them. A good nature fairy godmother presents the magic fish-bone to good nature and simple princess Alicia. While the magic fish-bone can fulfill any wish of the Princess provided the wish comes at the right time. And as usual with any fairy tales, this story too con..
The Coming of the Fairies
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Coming of the Fairies is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This nar..
A House of Pomegranates
by Oscar WildeA House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." The stories included in this collection are as follows: The Young Kin..
The Nursery "Alice"
by Lewis CarrollThe Nursery "Alice" is a shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". It includes 20 of John Tenniel's illustrations from the original book, redrawn, enlarged, coloured – and, in some cases, revised – by Tenniel himself. The book was published by Macm..
Modern Swedish Masterpieces - Short Stories
by Charles Wharton StorkIt is curious that, despite the rapid growth of interest in Scandinavian literature through the English-speaking world, there has been up to now no book to represent one of the most brilliant fields of achievement, the Swedish short story. The work of Selma Lagerlof is well known and a volume of Per Hallström has appeared recently, but no attempt h..
Turkish fairy tales and folk tales
by LevetusTHESE stories were collected from the mouths of the Turkish peasantry by the Hungarian savant Dr. Ignatius Kunos, during his travels through Anatolia, and published for the first time in 1889 by the well-known Hungarian Literary Society, “A Kisfaludy Társaság,” under the Title of Török Népmések (“Turkish Folk Tales”), with an introduction by ..
Serbian Fairy Tales
by Elodie L. MijatovichA collection of Serbian fairy tales including THE GOLDEN APPLE-TREE AND THE NINE PEAHENSPAPALLUGA; OR, THE GOLDEN SLIPPERSATAN’S JUGGLINGS AND GOD’S MIGHTGOOD DEEDS ARE NEVER LOSTTHE WICKED STEPMOTHERBIRD GIRLSIR PEPPERCORNBASH-CHALEK; OR TRUE STEELTHE BITER BITTHE TRADE THAT NO ONE KNOWSTHE THREE SUITORSTHE GOLDEN-HAIRED TWINSTHE DREAM OF THE..