Myth & Fairy Tales Books

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Anonymous

It's been called The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, One Thousand and One Nights, etc., but the framework is generally the same: a Persian king discovers his wife is cheating, so, having determined th..

Aesop's Fables

Aesop

Aesop was a Greek slave who lived during the 5th century BC, and his fables, like the "Tortoise and the Hare," the "Boy who Cried Wolf," and the "Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs," are known all over t..

Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Grimm Brothers

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, or the Brothers Grimm, were born in Hanau Germany in the late 1700s. They were well known scholars who made popular a multitude of European folk and fairy tales that had until..

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

To this day, the classic Gulliver's Travels places Jonathan Swift as the master of both parody and satire. Fifteen years in the making, his book was published anonymously due to fear of prosecution. A..

Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which takes place 6 months after Alice's trip down the rabbit hole. This time it's a ..

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) was a Danish author and poet famous for his fairy tales and children's stories. These include "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Ugly Duckling," and dozens ..

The Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book is a part of series by Andrew Lang, (1844 – 1912) a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic. Lang contributed to the fields of history, anthropology, and folklore scholarship,..

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is th..