Nonfiction books about the history and cultural impact of folk- and fairy tales.
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last updated December, 2025
Folktales and Society: Story-Telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community (English and German Edition)
Linda Dégh
The Singer of Tales
Albert Bates Lord
Fairy Tale Architecture
Andrew Bernheimer
The Tar Baby: A Global History
Bryan Wagner
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey Into The Secret History Of Fairy Tales
Nicholas Jubber
The 1810 Grimm Manuscripts: The First Complete English Translation of the 1810 Handwritten Manuscripts The Beginnings of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen Children's and Household Tales
Oliver Loo
Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
Paulo Lemos Horta
Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun
Jane Harrington
Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
Valerie Paradiž
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