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Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
Katharine Mary Briggs's Kate Crackernuts (1963) based on the Scottish fairy tale Kate Crackernuts; James Reeves's The Cold Flame (1967), a retelling of the Grimm tale The Blue Light; Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen (1980) using elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale; Kara Dalkey's The Nightingale (1988), based on "The Emperor and the ...
The European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in a painting by Carl Larsson in 1881. A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, [1] magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. [2] Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful ...
Pages in category "Short stories by Hans Christian Andersen" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. ... Fairy Tales Told for Children. First ...
Pages in category "Short stories based on fairy tales" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [ 4 ]
Because they weren't published in print until the tail end of the 16th century, the origins of the fairy tales we know today are misty. That identical motifs — a spinner's wheel, a looming tower, a seductive enchantress — cropped up in Italy, France, Germany, Asia and the pre-Colonial Americas allowed warring theories to spawn.
"The Tallow Candle" (Danish: Tællelyset) is a 700-word literary fairytale by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). It was written in the 1820s, making it one of his earliest works and his first known work in the fairytale genre, but its existence was apparently unknown to scholars or the public for almost two centuries.