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The Faber Book of Favourite Fairy Tales

Sara Corrin & Stephen Corrin

First published 1998
Publisher Faber and Faber
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Juan Wijngaard
Pages x+244
Price £9.95
ISBN 0571148549

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "First published in 1988 by Faber and Faber Limited"
  • No edition or printing statement
  • This version has UK currency on front dust jacket flap & does not have "Library of Congress Data applied for" on copyright page
  • Date from Amazon.co.uk as of 2020-10-17
  • Artist credit per cover, title page, & copyright page
  • "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon" translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent
  • "Cinderella" and "Thorn Rose, the Sleeping Beauty" translated by Lucy Meredith
  • Remaining translations by Stephen Corrin
  • "Baba Yaga, the Bony-Legged, the Witch" is stated as "slightly adapted"
  • "The Frog Prince" is listed as "The Frog Prince (or Iron Henry)" in ToC
  • "Midas and the Golden Touch" is credited as "retold by Stephen Corrin"

Searching by ISBN: 0571148549

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon P. C. Asbjörnsen & Jorgen I. Møe Short Story
16 The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen Short Story
30 Hansel and Gretel The Brothers Grimm Short Story
40 The Goose-Girl The Brothers Grimm Short Story
50 Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper Charles Perrault Short Story
59 The Princess and the Pea Hans Christian Andersen Short Story
61 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Antoine Galland Short Fiction
87 Rapunzel The Brothers Grimm Short Story
93 Baba Yaga, the Bony-Legged, the Witch Aleksandr Afanasiev Short Story
102 Little Red Riding Hood (Little Redcap) The Brothers Grimm Short Story
107 Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen Short Story
122 The Three Wishes Madame le Prince de Beaumont Short Story
125 Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs The Brothers Grimm Short Story
138 Thorn Rose, the Sleeping Beauty The Brothers Grimm Short Story
141 The Frog Prince The Brothers Grimm Short Story
148 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Antoine Galland Short Fiction
165 Rumpelstiltskin The Brothers Grimm Short Story
170 Jack and the Beanstalk Joseph Jacobs Short Story
178 The Story of the Three Bears Robert Southey Short Story
184 Bluebeard Charles Perrault Short Story
192 The Three Sillies Joseph Jacobs Short Story
197 Puss in Boots Charles Perrault Short Story
204 Midas and the Golden Touch Stephen Corrin Short Fiction
212 The Twelve Dancing Princesses (The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces) The Brothers Grimm Short Story
219 The Emperor's New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Short Story
226 Beauty and the Beast Madame le Prince de Beaumont Short Story
ix Introduction (The Faber Book of Favourite Fairy Tales) Sara Corrin & Stephen Corrin Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Faber Book of Favourite Fairy Tales Cover 1998 Faber and Faber Hardcover Anthology Juan Wijngaard x+244