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Year
Category
Author/Source
Story Title
GEM!
Comments/Collection
Wiki page
E-book
Audiobook
More info
1621
Fairy Tales
Folk Tale - English
Tom Thumb
First fairy tale printed in English
1697
Fairy Tales
Perrault, Charles
Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper
1697
Fairy Tales
Perrault, Charles
Little Red Riding-Hood.
1697
Fairy Tales
Perrault, Charles
Little Thumbling (aka Little Thumb, or Thumbkin, or Hop O' My Thumb)
Similar to Tom Thumb (English fairy tale)
1697
Fairy Tales
Perrault, Charles
Master Cat, or Puss In Boots
1697
Fairy Tales
Perrault, Charles
Sleeping Beauty (aka The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)
1697
Fairy Tales
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Blue Bird (aka Bluecrest)
Green Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1697
Fairy Tales
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The Story of Pretty Goldilocks (aka The Beauty with Golden Hair, or Dawn, the Golden Haired)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1698
Fairy Tales
d'Aulnoy, Madame
The White Cat (aka Queen Cat)
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Sultan and Scheherazade (framing story, aka The Sultan and His Vow)
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (framing story)
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Story of Sindbad's Fifth Voyage
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Story of Sindbad's First Voyage
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Story of Sindbad's Fourth Voyage
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Story of Sindbad's Second Voyage
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Story of Sindbad's Seventh and Last Voyage
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Story of Sindbad's Sixth Voyage
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1704
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Story of Sindbad's Third Voyage
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1712
Folklore
Arabian Nights
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1717
Folklore
Arabian Nights
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1717
Folklore
Arabian Nights
The Enchanted Horse (aka The Ebony Horse)
Compiled by Antoine Galland (Arabian Nights Entertainments)
1726
Fairy Tales
Swift, Jonathan
A Voyage to Lilliput
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1734
Fairy Tales
Folk Tale - English
Jack and the Beanstalk
Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1756
Fairy Tales
de Beaumont, Madame Leprince
Beauty and the Beast
Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
King Lear (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Othello (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1807
Tales Retold
Lamb, Charles and Mary
The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
Tales from Shakespeare
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Little Red Cap (aka Little Red Riding Hood)
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Rapunzel
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Snow White (aka Snowdrop, or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Brave Little Tailor (aka The Valiant Little Tailor or The Gallant Tailor)
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Elves and the Shoemaker (aka The Elves)
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Fisherman and His Wife
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Frog Prince (aka The Frog King, or Iron Henry)
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Little Ash Girl (aka Ash-Maiden or Ashputtel)
Similar story to Cinderella
1812
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Six Swans
1814
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Briar Rose (aka Brier Rose, or Little Briar Rose)
Similar story to Sleeping Beauty
1814
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Jorinde and Joringel (aka Jorinde and Joringel)
1814
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Queen Bee
1815
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Goose Girl
1815
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Twelve Dancing Princesses (aka The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces)
1819
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
The Bremen Town Musicians (aka The Traveling Musicians)
1819
Fairy Tales
Brothers Grimm
Thumbling (aka Thumbling's Travels)
Similar story as Tom Thumb
1835
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Princess and the Pea (aka The Princess and the Bean, or The Real Princess)
1835
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Tinderbox (aka The Tinder Box)
1835
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
Thumbelina (aka Thumbelina, or Thumbelisa)
1837
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Emperor's New Clothes
1837
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Little Mermaid (aka The Mermaid)
1837
Fairy Tales
Southey, Robert
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
British folk tale
1838
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (aka The Brave Tin Soldier)
1838
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Wild Swans
1841
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Ugly Duckling
1842
Fairy Tales
Folk Tale - German
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (aka The Pied Piper)
Popularized in English by Robert Browning (poem)
1843
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Nightingale
1845
Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (aka The Chimney Sweep)
1851
Fairy Tales
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Golden Touch (King Midas)
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1851
Fairy Tales
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Miraculous Pitcher
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1851
Mythology
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Pandora's Box (aka The Paradise of Children)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
1851
Mythology
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Perseus and Medusa (aka The Gorgon's Head)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
1853
Mythology
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
[Odyssey #3] Circe's Palace
Tanglewood Tales
1853
Mythology
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Prosperina, Ceres and Pluto (aka The Pomegranate Seeds)
Tanglewood Tales. (Note: Prosperina = Persephone)
1853
Mythology
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Golden Fleece (aka The Argonauts, or Jason and the Argonauts)
Tanglewood Tales
1853
Mythology
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Theseus and The Minotaur (aka How Theseus Slayed the Minotaur)
Tanglewood Tales
1867
Mythology
Bulfinch, Thomas
[Iliad] The Trojan War
Bulfinch's Mythology
1867
Mythology
Bulfinch, Thomas
Daedalus and Icarus (The Wings of Icarus)
Bulfinch's Mythology
1867
Mythology
Bulfinch, Thomas
The Story of Baucis and Philemon (aka How Baucis and Philemon Changed into Two Trees)
Bulfinch's Mythology
1867
Mythology
Bulfinch, Thomas
The Story of Hyacinthus (aka Apollo and Hyacinthus)
Bulfinch's Mythology
1867
Mythology
Bulfinch, Thomas
The Twelve Labors of Hercules
Bulfinch's Mythology
1883
Fairy Tales
Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1883
Mythology
Church, Alfred J.
The Story of Romulus and of Numa
Stories from Livy
1890
Fairy Tales
Folk Tale - English
The Three Little Pigs
English Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs); Green Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1894
Fables
The Fables of Aesop
Androcles and the Lion (aka Androcles)
By Joseph Jacobs. Questionable attribution to Aesop
1909
Mythology
Buckley, Elsie F.
Echo and Narcissus (aka The Curse of Echo)
Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece
1909
Mythology
Buckley, Elsie F.
Eros and Psyche (aka Cupid and Psyche)
Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece
1909
Mythology
Buckley, Elsie F.
Orpheus and Eurydice (aka The Divine Musician)
Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece
1909
Mythology
Buckley, Elsie F.
Paris and Helen of Troy (aka, Judgment of Paris, or Paris and Œnone)
Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece [Prelude to the Trojan War]
1909
Mythology
Buckley, Elsie F.
Pygmalion and The Statue that Came to Life (aka The Sculptor and the Image)
Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece
1909
Mythology
Buckley, Elsie F.
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece
1912
Mythology
Cox, George W.
[Odyssey #2] Ulysses and the Cyclops
The Junior Classics, Vol. III: Tales from Greece & Rome
1912
Mythology
Cox, George W.
[Odyssey #4] Ulysses and the Sirens
The Junior Classics, Vol. III: Tales from Greece & Rome
1912
Mythology
Cox, George W.
The Gift of Athene (aka The Founding of Athens)
The Junior Classics, Vol. II: Folk Tales and Myths
1912
Mythology
Patten, Grace Bigelow
The Trojan Horse (aka The Wooden Horse)
The Junior Classics, Vol. III: Tales from Greece & Rome
1916
Fairy Tales
Folk Tale - Russian
The Salt Mountain (aka Salt)
Old Peter's Russian Tales
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
Belling the Cat (aka The Mice in Council)
Questionable attribution to Aesop
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Ant and the Grasshopper (aka The Ants and the Grasshopper)
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Ass and His Shadow
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Crow and the Pitcher
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Dog and His Reflection
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Dog in the Manger
Questionable attribution to Aesop
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Fox and the Goat
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Fox and the Grapes
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Fox and the Stork
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Goose and the Golden Egg (aka The Goose That Laid Golden Eggs)
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Hare and the Tortoise (aka The Tortoise and the Hare)
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Lion and the Mouse
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Milkmaid and Her Pail
Questionable attribution to Aesop
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Miller, His Son, and the Ass
Questionable attribution to Aesop
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Miser (aka The Miser and His Gold)
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The North Wind and the Sun
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Old Lion and the Fox (aka The Fox and the Sick Lion)
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf (aka The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Two Goats
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Wolf and the Crane
1919
Fables
The Aesop for Children
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Questionable attribution to Aesop
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 1)
Right-Mind and Wrong-Mind
Book 1: The Loss of Friends
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 1)
The Cunning Hare and the Lion (aka Numskull and the Rabbit)
Book 1: The Loss of Friends
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 1)
The Elephant and the Sparrow (aka The Duel Between Elephant and Sparrow)
Book 1: The Loss of Friends
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 2)
The Elephants and the Mice (aka The Mice That Set Elephant Free)
Book 2: The Winning of Friends
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 3)
The Brahmin and the Crooks (aka The Brahmin's Goat)
Book 3: Of Crows and Owls
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 3)
The Cave that Talked (aka The Lion and the Jackal)
Book 3: Of Crows and Owls
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 3)
The Wedding of the Mouse (aka The Mouse Turned into a Maid, or Mouse-Maid Made Mouse)
Book 3: Of Crows and Owls
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 4)
The Donkey and the Washerman (aka The Donkey in the Tiger-Skin)
Book 4: Loss of Gains
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 4)
The Monkey and the Crocodile (aka The Heart of a Monkey)
Book 4: Loss of Gains
1925
Fables
Panchatantra (Book 5)
The Loyal Mongoose (aka The Brahmin and the Mongoose)