Research Guides: Fairy Tales: Find books (primary sources / fairy tales)

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Results include both print books and eBooks on children's fairy tales and folktales.
Project Gutenberg
Digital library of over 70,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works including fairy tales for which U.S. copyright has expired.

A sampling of fairy tale eBooks & print books available through Reynolds Libraries collections

The Annotated African American Folktales
Call Number: GR111.A47 A55 2018

DTC & PRC Circulating Collections
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Call Number: PN3437 .L43 2020

PRC Circulating Collection
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction
Call Number: GR550 .W39 2018

PRC Circulation Collection
Silver Magic: The World's Best Fair Tales
Taylor & Francis eBook, 2022.
Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror
Taylor & Francis eBook, 2024.

eBook databases

Ebook Central [ProQuest]
Ebook Central provides access to a wide variety of multi-disciplinary ebooks with unlimited, multi-user access, powerful research tools, and DRM-free chapter downloads (Full text)
eBook Collection [EBSCO]
Provides access to full-text online books in a wide variety of subject areas. (Full text)
Taylor & Francis eBooks
eBook collection covers a wide variety of disciplines including science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.

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