Fairy Tales by Authors

"One Thousand and One Nights" is a famous collection of Middle-Eastern folk tales and stories compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is also known in English as the Arabian Nights. Many tales and fables were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others are drawn from the Persian work of Hazar Afsan.

Some of the well-known stories of Arabian Nights are: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor" and many others. » read more

The Brothers Grimm: Jacob (January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 - December 16, 1859), were German academics who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, which became very popular.

Grimm Brothers also did academic work in linguistics, related to how the sounds in words shift over time - Grimm's law. They are among the best-known story tellers of folk tales from Europe, and their work popularized such tales as "Rumpelstiltskin", "Snow White", "Rapunzel", "Cinderella", "Hansel and Gretel", "The Frog Prince", and many others. » read more

Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French writer. Perrault was born in Paris to a wealthy bourgeois family, son of Pierre Perrault. His brother, Claude Perrault, is known as the architect of the severe east range of the Louvre, built between 1665 and 1680.

In 1695, when he was 67, he lost his post as secretary. He decided to dedicate himself to his children and published Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, with the subtitle: Tales of Mother Goose.

The publications of his work made him suddenly widely-known and marked the beginnings of a new literary genre, the fairy tale. » read more

Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was a Florentine children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.

During the Wars of Independence in 1848 and 1860 Collodi served as a volunteer with the Tuscan army. Carlo Lorenzini had won fame as early as 1856 with his novel In vapore and had also begun intense activity on other political newspapers such as Fanfulla. In 1880 he began writing Storia di un burattino "The story of a marionette", also called Le avventure di Pinocchio, which was published weekly in Giornale dei Bambini - the first Italian newspaper for children.

Lorenzini died unaware of the fame and popularity that awaited his work. » read more

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author and poet, wrote many poems, plays, stories and travel essays, but is best known for his fairy tales of which there are over one hundred and fifty, published in numerous collections during his life and many still in print today.

Andersen's fairy tales of fantasy with moral lessons are popular with children and adults all over the world, and they also contain autobiographical details of the man himself. Andersen wrote 168 fairy tales between 1835 and 1872. The first few were published in Tales Told for Children when he was 30. Stories such as "The Little Mermaid," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "Thumbelina" and "The Snow Queen" won him worldwide fame. » read more

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who is best known by the pen name Lewis Carroll. (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898)

His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with Irish connections.

During the earlier times in his life, young Dodgson was educated at home. At twelve he was sent away to a small private school at nearby Richmond, where he appears to have been happy and settled. The young adult Charles Dodgson was about six feet tall, slender and deemed attractive, with curling brown hair and blue or grey eyes. » read more

Wilhelm Hauff (November 29, 1802 – November 18, 1827) was a German poet and novelist.

Wilhelm Hauff was born in Stuttgart, the son of August Friedrich Hauff, a secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs, and Hedwig Wilhelmine Elsaesser Hauff. He was the second of four children. Young Hauff lost his father when he was seven years old, and his early education was practically self-gained in the library of his maternal grandfather. In 1820 he began to study at the University of Tübingen and in four years he completed his philosophical and theological studies.

On leaving the university, Wilhelm became a tutor to the children of the famous Württemberg minister of war, General Baron Ernst Eugen von Hugel, and for them wrote his Märchen fairy tales. Some of these stories are very popular in German-speaking countries to this day, such as "The History of Little Mook", "The Tale of the Ghost Ship", "The Dwarf Nose", and "The Cold Heart" and many others. » read more

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

Alexander Pushkin was born in Moscow into a cultured but poor aristocratic family. His first poem was published at the age of fifteen. The Russian literary scene recognized his talent widely.

Some of his fairy tales are very popular to this day, such as "The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel", "The Tale of the Dead Princess", and others. » read more