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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 princesses, dragons, wizards, witches, and …Continued

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 …Continued

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 …Continued

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 …Continued

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. …Continued

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. …Continued

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. …Continued

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 fairy tales ever …Continued

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 publishing house. …Continued

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 …Continued

Russian Fairytales (1915)

A collection of Russian fairytales translated from the Russian of Nikolai Polevoy, a notable editor, writer, translator in the early 19th century. …Continued

Leo Tolstoy´s Fables for Children (1904)

Leo Tolstoy's stories for younger readers, most of which had their seed in primers which he wrote for the school which he established in 1849 …Continued

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