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The Power of Myth
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4.26 avg rating — 54,931 ratings
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
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4.12 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories
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4.32 avg rating — 5,118 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
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4.21 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
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3.96 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
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3.96 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
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4.10 avg rating — 104,466 ratings
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Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Classic Fairy Tales
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4.27 avg rating — 3,373 ratings
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Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
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4.14 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series)
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4.15 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
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3.90 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
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3.81 avg rating — 540 ratings
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The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
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4.33 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
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4.06 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
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4.01 avg rating — 2,274 ratings
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The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm: A Norton Critical Edition
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4.23 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
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3.83 avg rating — 6,469 ratings
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Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
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3.81 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
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3.75 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
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4.16 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Feminine in Fairy Tales
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4.26 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
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3.72 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
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4.10 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
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3.95 avg rating — 525 ratings
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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
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3.90 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
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4.32 avg rating — 900 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
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3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
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3.73 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
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3.82 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Classic Fairy Tales
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4.19 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
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3.87 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan
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4.33 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Snow White, Blood Red
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3.72 avg rating — 6,990 ratings
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The Folktale
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3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (The Annotated Books)
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4.42 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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The Virago Book of Fairy Tales
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3.99 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
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3.92 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
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3.72 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
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4.12 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
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Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World
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4.15 avg rating — 30 ratings
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A Short History of Myth
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3.69 avg rating — 6,727 ratings
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The Quest for Merlin
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3.80 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
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4.06 avg rating — 6,331 ratings
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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
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3.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Witch as Teacher in Fairy Tales
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
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4.23 avg rating — 224,297 ratings
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Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun
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3.84 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Initiatory Path in Fairy Tales: The Alchemical Secrets of Mother Goose
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3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Rackham's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color
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4.51 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
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4.39 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
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4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
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3.91 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Stepmother in Fairy Tales: Bereavement and the Feminine Shadow
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
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3.80 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Teaching Fairy Tales (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
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4.02 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
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3.71 avg rating — 1,039 ratings
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Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales
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4.20 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale & Fantasy
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4.01 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Beyond the Glass Slipper: Ten Neglected Fairy Tales To Fall In Love With
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3.69 avg rating — 234 ratings
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The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
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4.39 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
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Beauty and the Beast Tales From Around the World
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4.19 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
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4.23 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Mermaid and Other Water Spirit Tales From Around the World
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4.33 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
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3.62 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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Shadow and Evil in Fairytales
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4.32 avg rating — 900 ratings
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The Discovery of King Arthur
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3.80 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Bluebeard Tales From Around the World (Surlalune Fairy Tale Series)
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Twelve Dancing Princesses: Tales from Around the World
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3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Cinderella Tales From Around the World (Surlalune Fairy Tale Series)
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4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings
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And They Lived... Ever After
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
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3.97 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales From Around the World (SurLaLune Fairy Tale Series Book 2)
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4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Cures and Curses: Disability in Folklore and Folk Tales
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn
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4.03 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Frog Prince and Other Frog Tales From Around the World: Fairy Tales, Fables and Folklore about Frogs (Surlalune Fairy Tale Series)
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Grateful Dead Tales From Around the World (SurLaLune Fairy Tale Series)
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Puss in Boots and Other Cat Tales From Around the World
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
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3.80 avg rating — 905 ratings
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Animal Folklore: Beasts and Creatures in Tales, Myths, and Legends
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Fairy Tellers
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3.90 avg rating — 572 ratings
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales
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4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and Their Tales
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Types of International Folktales. A Classification and Bibliography. Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. Part I. Animal Tales, Tales of Magic, Religious Tales, and Realistic Tales, with an Introduction (FF Communications, 284)
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales
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3.98 avg rating — 2,584 ratings
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Turkish Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
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3.25 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
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3.67 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Bedtime Stories for Elders: What Fairy Tales Can Teach Us About the New Aging
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
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3.89 avg rating — 657 ratings
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