Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1880)
First English translation of Pu Songling’s collection of classical Chinese stories, including magical pear trees, thimble-sized babies, ghostly cities, and mean spi…more
Books
The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863)
This 1863 rendering of Perrault’s classic tale, is thought to be the very first shape book, or die cut book, at least in the United States….more
Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales (1913)
In this elaborately produced volume, beautifully illustrated by Willy Pogany, Hungarian-born linguist Ignác Kúnos presents 44 folktales from Turkey, including pri…more
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
Deriving its title from the word for “ghost story” in Japanese this is a book by scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn in which are compiled an array of ghost stori…more
The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
The Death of Cock Robin, also known as The Death and Burial of Cock Robin is a somewhat macabre English nursery rhyme describing the murder and the funeral of a rob…more
Fables for the Frivolous (1899)
One of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl, this collection of fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s Aesop-style originals from m…more
Cossack Fairy Tales (1916)
Fairy tales and folk tales originally published in 1894 and translated from a dialect spoken in the area known to us today as western Ukraine….more
The Hare of Inaba (1892)
Japanese folktale involving a mistreated hare, a bridge of crocodiles, eighty mean brothers, one good brother, and a beautiful princess….more
The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884)
A brilliant collection of stories from the folklore tradition of the Algonquin peoples of North America, including tales of Glooskap, Lox, and the Rabbit Magician….more
The Chinese Fairy Book (1921)
A book compiling seventy-four traditional Chinese folk takes, making, as the translator notes, “probably the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fa…more
Croatian Tales of Long Ago (1922)
A seminal collection of short stories by the acclaimed children’s author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić originally published in 1916 in Zagreb by the Matica Hrvatska publ…more
Illuminated version of Lord Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur (1912)
Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur, written as early as the spring of 1835, was a retelling of the third, fourth and fifth chapters of the twenty-first book of M…more