Folklore books

Folklore as an Historical Science

George Laurence Gomme

George Laurence Gomme’s Folklore as an Historical Science is a scholarly treatise that treats a single…

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 3 Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities

F. Max Müller

The third volume of Chips from a German Workshop collects Friedrich Max Müller’s essays on literature,…

Tales of Folk and Fairies

Katharine Pyle

The work is a collection of folk narratives assembled by Katharine Pyle, whose subjects are fairy tales and…

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays

F. Max Müller

The work is a scholarly essay collection by Friedrich Max Müller, a German thinker whose interests span…

The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter

Aesop

The Aesop for Children gathers a selection of Aesop’s fables, each paired with Milo Winter’s graceful…

The Book of Nature Myths

Florence Holbrook

The Book of Nature Myths, compiled by Florence Holbrook, is a collection of folklore that explains the…

Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore

This volume gathers a selection of folk narratives and fairy‑tale motifs that were traditionally told aloud…

The Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book is a collection of folk narratives that blend magical quests with moral intrigue, and it…

Ten Thousand Wonderful Things Comprising whatever is marvellous and rare, curious, eccentric and extraordinary in all ages and nations

Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)

Angelo De Gubernatis

The Red Fairy Book

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

James Baldwin

The science of fairy tales: An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology

Edwin Sidney Hartland

The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries

Thomas Keightley

The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang A Project Gutenberg Linked Index to All Stories in the 12 Volumes

Andrew Lang

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language

F. Max Müller

Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2)

Angelo De Gubernatis

The Violet Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology

John Fiske

The Yellow Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes

Robert Means Lawrence

The Pink Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions

W. H. Davenport Adams

The Crimson Fairy Book

Andrew Lang