Research Guides: Fairy Tales: Home

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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Background information on all topics to start your research.
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Articles and essays on literary criticism, and biographies of authors from many countries.
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Articles about many topics for more advanced research.

NOW find articles published prior to 1923 in the U.S. and prior to 1870 elsewhere. This includes nearly 500,000 articles, many are primary documents.
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Arts & Humanities Database
Articles on arts like visual arts, architecture, design, music, literature, and theatre,
and humanities like history, philosophy, and cultural studies.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
Andrew Lang known primarily as a historian, literary critic, and translator collected and adapted dozens of fairy tales in a veritable rainbow of books between 1889 and1907. While the bulk of Lang's output was for adults, his interest in fairy tales and other childhood mythologies represents an important strain in Victorian thought, in which fantasy and imagination were recognized as important seats of learning and education.
Folklinks: Folk and Fairy Tale Sites - D.L. Ashliman
A companion to Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook
Greenwood Press
Project Gutenberg (Search by Author's Name)
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations. Also discover over 1,600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 full-text eBooks.