“The best single description I know of the world of the fairy tale is that of Max Lüthi who describes it as an abstract world, full of discrete, interchangeable people, objects and incidents, all of ...

J.M. Dent & Co., E.P. Dutton & co. A collection of stories split up into three categories: "Fairy Tales and Romances," "Mother Jack's Fairy Book," and "Later Fairy Tales and Rhymes" ...

Once upon a time, people told fairy tales because—well, there were lots of reasons. Folklorists believe that some stories got their start as anecdotes that were spun over time into such good yarns ...

SAN ANTONIO — Jacqueline E. Smith has always believed in the magic of fairy tales. As a child, she was already writing stories inspired by iconic princesses. “I was in preschool when I was writing my ...

There was once a beautiful princess who lived locked up by her father, as he feared that something would happen to the daughter he loved so dearly. One day, the girl complained to her nurse, who was a ...