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Information About Fairy Tales
For those of you who like to know a little background about your reading,
we have articles on fairy tales, the most prominent fairy tale authors
and collectors, plus the complete text of the book Fairy Tales: Their Origin
and Meaning (1878), which provides a good overview of the fairy tale genre,
an exposition of 19th Century literary analysis of fairy tales, as well as a
collection of fairy tales from around the world, which we have indexed.
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Fairy Tale
A fairy tale is a story, usually told to children,
concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as: fairies, goblins,
elves, trolls, giants and others. These stories often involve princes and
princesses and normally have a happy ending. The fairy tale is a sub-class of the more general folktale.
Giambattista
Basile
Giambattista Basile (died circa 1637) was the Conte di Torrone, a
soldier and government official, who is known for publishing a collection
of fairy tales, titled Lo cunto de li cunti (Neapolitan
dialect for The Story of Stories), or Il Pentamerone, in
Naples, Italy in 1634. This was, the first-known full collection of
European literary fairy tales.
Mother Goose
In literature, Mother Goose (French: Ma Mère l'Oye)
is the archtypical countrywoman, the teller of fairy tales and nursery
rhymes. In 1765, John Newbury's Mother Goose's Melody, switched the
focus from fairy tales to nursery rhymes, and in English this is still the
prime connotation for Mother Goose today
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault's publication, in the late 17th Century, of Tales and Stories of the Past
with Morals, with the subtitle: Tales of Mother Goose made him suddenly
widely-known beyond his own circles and marked the beginnings of a new
literary genre, the fairy tale.
Grimm Brothers
The Brothers Grimm were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred
German folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of
Kinder- und Hausmärchen ("Children's and Household
Tales") in 1812 and 1814.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
English translations of the 7th edition (1857) of Grimm's Fairy Tales remain popular,
largely as material for children, though the folk tales the Grimms collected
had not previously been considered children's stories.
Hans Christian
Anderson
In 1835, Andersen published the earliest installment of his
immortal Fairy Tales (Danish: Eventyr). Other parts,
completing the first volume, appeared in 1836 and 1837. The value of these
stories was not at first perceived, and they sold slowly.
Robert Browning
In 1849, Robert Browning published his well-known poem "The
Pied Piper of Hamelin" which was probably based on the Grimm Brother's version of the
tale.
Fairy Tales: Their Origin and
Meaning (1878)
"Its aim is a very
modest one: to furnish an inducement rather than a formal introduction to the
study of Folk Lore." Although this is a work of non-fiction about
fairy tales, rather than a simple collection of the tales themselves, it does
include a number of fairy tales and myths from around the world, which we've
listed in an index, so that you can just read the tales, and skip the
analysis and commentary, if you prefer.
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844 - July 20, 1912) was a
prolific Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic but is best known as the
collector of folk and fairy tales. His very popular Blue Fairy Book (1889), beautifully
produced and illustrated, was followed annually each Christmas for several
years by a book of fairy tales and romances
drawn from many sources.
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