Fairy Tales of Ireland

Tales of Passed Times

The Tales of Mother Goose - Illustrated by D. J. Munro

Four and Twenty Fairy Tales, Selected From Those of Perrault, and Other Popular Writers - Illustrated by Godwin, Corbould, and Harvey

Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales

Chi-Lin Purse : A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories

The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald (Illustrated)

Fairy Tale Treasury

Life is not easy, especially for pretty girls: they are often devoured by wolves or ill-treated by their sisters, mothers, fathers and husbands. As for boys, when they are ugly, they can also be tormented. Actually, there is always a cruel ogre looking for fresh flesh! Needless to say that fairies, unpredictable creatures, can interfere and change the course of time but it is rarely helpful: magic is not as efficient as intelligence and humanity. Compared to virtue and honesty, I would even say it is useless...Charles Perrault was a serious writer who understood, at the end of his life, that his duty, as a human being and an intellectual, was to increase the level of reason and humanity of people. Therefore, he gathered European folktales and transformed them in order to enhance their moral qualities. Barbarity, man's temptation, was an individual disgrace he wanted to dilute in the fountain of knowledge. Children were to read his fairy tales and choose to follow, with the help of their maturing consciousness, the road to wisdom. More than three centuries later, a world on the verge of total self-destruction should listen, at last, to the echo of the fabulist's intelligence.Illustrations and new translation by Dr. Laurent Paul Sueur.

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Fairy Tales of Ireland

P.J. Lynch, W. B. Yeats, Neil Philip, 1888

Tales of Passed Times

John Austen, Charles Perrault, 1697

The Tales of Mother Goose - Illustrated by D. J. Munro

D. J. Munro, Charles Perrault, 1697

Four and Twenty Fairy Tales, Selected From Those of Perrault, and Other Popular Writers - Illustrated by Godwin, Corbould, and Harvey

James Robinson Planché, Edward Corbould, Charles Perrault, 1858

Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales

Michael Foreman, Charles Perrault, Translator) Illustrated By Michael Foreman Carter, Angela, Angela Carter, 1984

Chi-Lin Purse : A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories

Linda Fang, 1994

The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald (Illustrated)

George MacDonald, 1872

Fairy Tale Treasury

Alan Marks, Collectif, Rosie Dickins, 2009