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Fairy Tales

Fairy tale is a type of short narrative that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories thus designated explicitly refer to fairies.

Fairy tales are high fantasy based on stories that are not only not true, but that couldn't possibly be true, while Legends are sometimes perceived as real or plausible. Fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived both by teller and hearers as being grounded in historical truth. However, unli ...more

New Releases Tagged "Fairy Tales"

The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy, #3)

A Curse So Dark and Lonely (A Curse So Dark and Lonely, #1)

The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)

In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

Beauty and the Baron (Forever After Retellings, #1)

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The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2)

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Golden Curse (Fantasy and Fairytales, #1)

The Captain and Miss Winter (Forever After Retellings #2)

A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3)

Golden Chains (Fantasy and Fairytales, #2)

Golden Crown (Fantasy and Fairytales, #3)

A Tale of Beauty and Beast (Beyond the Four Kingdoms, #2)

Lists

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

The Best of Mythic Fiction

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Fairy tales & Retellings.

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YA Modern Retellings

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The Best Fairytales and Retellings

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Popular Fairy Tales Books

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)

Beastly (Beastly, #1; Kendra Chronicles, #1)

Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)

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Author Interviews

Audrey Niffenegger

The Raven Girl longs to escape the constraints of her human body in this dark fairy tale, written and illustrated by the author of The Time Traveler's Wife.

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Quotes Tagged “Fairy Tales”

“ Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted. ”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien on Fairy-stories

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