This is a selection of fairy tales from various sources (with GEMs highlighted).  The list below includes links for several associated items which may be available online for each book: (a) Wikipedia page, (b) e-book, and (c) audiobook.  There is also a column called “More info” with links to optional posts on each book.

The fairy tales in this section are by authors other than the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault and Madame d’Aulnoy (these are covered in their own sections).  Some of the stories listed here are very famous, but they are either by unknown authors or by authors who wrote just a few well-known stories.  Examples are The Three Little Pigs, Beauty and the Beast, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The Pied Piper of Hamelin, as well as the very first fairy tale printed in English: Tom Thumb.  Many of these fairy tales were collected in Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, which are referenced in the Comments/Collection column.  Together, these 34 fairy tales comprise a highly enjoyable collection of folklore from all over the world.

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Year Author/Source Story Title GEM! Comments/Collection Wiki page E-book Audiobook More info
1621 Folk Tale - English Tom Thumb gem.png First fairy tale printed in English
1634 Fairy Tale - Italian The Three Sisters Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales (Giambattista Basile)
1726 Swift, Jonathan A Voyage to Lilliput gem.png Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1734 Folk Tale - English Jack and the Beanstalk gem.png Red Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1756 de Beaumont, Madame Leprince Beauty and the Beast gem.png Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1756 de Beaumont, Madame Leprince Prince Darling Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1758 de Beaumont, Madame Leprince Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1823 Folk Tale - European Henny Penny (aka Chicken Little)
1834 Folk Tale - Russian The Humpbacked Horse (aka The Enchanted Horse, or the Magic Horse) Written by Pyotr Yershov
1837 Folk Tale - Polish The Glass Mountain Yellow Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1837 Southey, Robert Goldilocks and the Three Bears gem.png British folk tale
1841 Folk Tale - Norwegian The Three Billy Goats Gruff Norwegian Folk Tales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1841 Ruskin, John The King of the Golden River
1842 Folk Tale - German The Pied Piper of Hamelin (aka The Pied Piper) gem.png Popularized in English by Robert Browning (poem)
1851 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Golden Touch (King Midas) gem.png A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1851 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Miraculous Pitcher gem.png A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1851 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Three Golden Apples A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
1855 Folk Tale - Russian The Feather of Finist the Falcon (aka Finn, the Keen Falcon) Collected by Alexander Afanasyev
1855 Folk Tale - Russian The Frog Princess (The Tsarevna Frog) Collected by Alexander Afanasyev
1883 Carlo Collodi The Adventures of Pinocchio gem.png
1889 Folk Tale - Central Asian The Bronze Ring Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - English Dick Whittington and His Cat (aka The History of Whittington) Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - English Jack the Giant Killer (aka The History of Jack the Giant Killer) Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - English The Red Ettin (aka The Red Etin) Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - Estonian The Gold-Spinners (aka The Water Lily) Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - Greek The Terrible Head Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang). Retold story of Perseus & Medusa
1889 Folk Tale - Norwegian East of the Sun and West of the Moon Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - Norwegian The Master Maid Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - Norwegian The Princess on the Glass Hill (aka The Maiden on the Glass Hill) Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - Norwegian Why the Sea is Salt Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1889 Folk Tale - Scottish The Black Bull of Norroway Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1890 Folk Tale - English The Three Little Pigs gem.png English Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs); Green Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
1898 Folk Tale - Japanese Urashima and the Turtle Japanese Fairy Tales (Lafcadio Hearn)
1916 Folk Tale - Russian The Salt Mountain (aka Salt) gem.png Old Peter's Russian Tales
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