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  2. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Category:English fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    English fairy tales, short stories that belong to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings.

  4. English Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    English Fairy Tales is a book containing a collection of 41 fairy tales retold by Flora Annie Steel and published in 1918 by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London. It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham and entails a variety of fairy tales featuring mythical creatures , heroic figures, and moral lessons .

  5. Category:British fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    English fairy tales (3 C, 38 P) S. Scottish fairy tales (35 P) Pages in category "British fairy tales" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.

  6. Hans Christian Andersen - Wikipedia

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    Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, [1] have been translated into more than 125 languages. [2] They have become embedded in Western collective consciousness , accessible to children as well as presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers. [ 3 ]

  7. Fairy tale - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Jack and the Beanstalk - Wikipedia

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    Henry Cole, publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularized the tale in The Home Treasury (1845), [3] and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890). [4] Jacobs' version is most commonly reprinted today, and is believed to be closer to the oral versions than Tabart's because it lacks the moralizing. [5]

  9. Charles Perrault - Wikipedia

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    Charles Perrault was born in Paris on 12 January 1628, [3] [4] to a wealthy bourgeois family and was the seventh child of Pierre Perrault (father) and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended very good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and elder brother Jean.

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