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Best-Loved Folktales of the World

Joanna Cole

First published 1982
Publisher Doubleday
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art W. R. Symonds
Pages xxiv+792
Price $15.95
ISBN 0385189494

Notes

For Phillip

Info from OCLC which lists the 200+ stories (anonymously written). Price from the SFBC flyer for the book club edition.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Best-Loved Folktales of the World 1983 Anchor Books Paperback Anthology W. R. Symonds xxiv+792
Best-loved Folktales of the World Cover 1983 Doubleday / SFBC Hardcover Anthology 6148 xxiv+792

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Cinderella Charles Perrault Short Story
8 Beauty and the Beast uncredited Short Story
24 Puss in Boots uncredited Short Story
28 Blue Beard Charles Perrault Short Story
32 The White Cat Madame d'Aulnoy Novelette
45 Drakestail uncredited Short Story
50 The Doctor and His Pupil Paul Delarue Short Story
53 Snow-White uncredited Short Story
61 The Brave Little Tailor uncredited Short Story
68 Ashenputtel Brothers Grimm Short Story
75 Rapunzel uncredited Short Story
78 The Devil's Three Golden Hairs uncredited Short Story
84 Darling Roland Brothers Grimm Short Story
88 The Fisherman and His Wife uncredited Short Story
95 The Frog Prince uncredited Short Story
98 The Goosegirl Brothers Grimm Short Story
104 Tom Thumb uncredited Short Story
109 The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids uncredited Short Story
112 Little Red Riding Hood Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
115 The Juniper Tree uncredited Short Story
122 The Golden Goose Brothers Grimm Short Story
126 Thousand-Furs uncredited Short Story
131 Rumpelstiltskin uncredited Short Story
134 Mother Holle Brothers Grimm Short Story
137 Sleeping Beauty uncredited Short Story
140 The Queen Bee Brothers Grimm Short Story
142 The Bremen Town Musicians uncredited Short Story
145 Hansel and Gretel Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
151 The Merman and the Farmer Jakob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
152 Crab uncredited Short Story
154 Bastianelo uncredited Short Story
157 The Cock and the Mouse uncredited Short Story
158 The Thoughtless Abbot uncredited Short Story
160 Don Demonio's Mother-in-Law Ralph Steele Boggs & Mary Gould Davis Short Story
166 Toñino and the Fairies Ralph Steele Boggs & Mary Gould Davis Short Story
170 I Ate the Loaf uncredited Short Story
171 The Half-Chick uncredited Short Story
174 A Legend of Saint Nicholas Adele De Leeuw Short Story
177 The Hare and the Tortoise Aesop Short Story
178 The Fox and the Grapes Aesop Short Story
178 The Goose with the Golden Eggs Aesop Short Story
179 The Man, the Boy and the Donkey Aesop Short Story
180 Eros and Psyche uncredited Short Story
186 The Twelve Months Georgios A. Megas Short Story
193 Jack and the Beanstalk uncredited Short Story
198 Jack the Giant-Killer Joseph Jacobs Short Story
207 Tom Tit Tot uncredited Short Story
211 The Boggart Thomas Keightley Short Story
212 Good and Bad News Katharine M. Briggs Short Story
213 The Hand of Glory Katharine M. Briggs Short Story
214 Lazy Jack uncredited Short Story
216 Molly Whuppie uncredited Short Story
219 Teeny-Tiny uncredited Short Story
220 The Three Wishes uncredited Short Story
221 Dick Whittington and His Cat uncredited Short Story
228 The Pied Piper uncredited Short Story
231 Master of All Masters uncredited Short Story
232 Munachar and Manachar uncredited Short Story
235 The Field of Boliauns Joseph Jacobs Short Story
237 The Fisherman's Son and the Gruagach of Tricks uncredited Short Story
247 The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin uncredited Short Story
256 The Birth of Fin MacCoul uncredited Short Story
264 Fin MacCoul and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh uncredited Short Story
270 Black, Brown, and Gray uncredited Short Story
275 The Brownie of Blednock uncredited Short Story
280 The Midwife Hamish Henderson Short Story
281 The Wee, Wee Mannie uncredited Short Story
283 The Cow on the Roof Thomas Gwynn Jones Short Story
287 East of the Sun and West of the Moon uncredited Short Story
296 Boots and the Troll uncredited Short Story
300 Gudbrand on the Hillside or What the Good Man Does Is Always Right uncredited Short Story
304 The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body uncredited Short Story
310 The Lad Who Went to the North Wind uncredited Short Story
313 The Master Thief uncredited Short Story
326 The Three Billygoats Gruff uncredited Short Story
327 The Mastermaid uncredited Short Story
340 Not a Pin to Choose Between Them uncredited Short Story
345 Princess on the Glass Hill uncredited Short Story
353 Why the Bear Is Stumpy-Tailed uncredited Short Story
354 Why the Sea Is Salt Peter Asbjörnsen & Jörgen Moe Short Story
358 The Tinderbox Hans Christian Andersen Short Story
364 Peter Bull uncredited Short Story
368 Maid Lena uncredited Short Story
377 The Old Woman and the Tramp or Nail Broth uncredited Short Story
381 Salt and Bread Harold Courlander Short Story
383 The Seal's Skin Jón Arnason Short Story
384 The Pig-Headed Wife James Cloyd Bowman & Margery Bianco Short Story
387 The Forest Bride Parker Fillmore Short Story
394 God and the Devil Share the Harvest A. Lerchis-Puskaitis Short Story
395 The Bul-Bul Bird A. Lerchis-Puskaitis Short Story
403 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Arthur Ransome Short Story
411 The Baba Yaga uncredited Short Story
414 The Firebird, the Horse of Power and the Princess Vasilissa Arthur Ransome Short Story
422 The Story of King Frost uncredited Short Story
425 Prince Hedgehog uncredited Short Story
428 Salt Arthur Ransome Short Story
438 The Treasure uncredited Short Story
441 Woe uncredited Short Story
447 Clever Manka Parker Fillmore Short Story
452 Intelligence and Luck K. J. Erben Short Story
455 Czar Trojan's Ears William I. Kaufman Short Story
457 A Stroke of Luck Linda Degh Short Story
459 It Could Always Be Worse Nathan Ausubel Short Story
460 Chelm Justice Nathan Ausubel Short Story
461 Saint or Horse Nathan Ausubel Short Story
462 When Hershel Eats Nathan Ausubel Short Story
467 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp uncredited Short Story
478 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves uncredited Short Story
485 The Fisherman and the Genie uncredited Short Story
488 The Donkey Driver and the Thief Eric Protter & Nancy Protter Short Story
490 The Farmer and His Hired Help Eric Protter & Nancy Protter Short Story
495 Don't Throw Stones from Not-Yours to Yours Harold Courlander Short Story
497 The Three Hares Bey Naki Tezel Short Story
503 Momotaro or The Peach-Boy Grace James Short Story
506 The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
509 The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue uncredited Short Story
512 The Tale of the Oki Islands Eric Protter & Nancy Protter Short Story
516 The Stonecutter uncredited Short Story
519 The Wife's Portrait Keigo Seki Short Story
521 Urashima uncredited Short Story
523 The Magic Kettle uncredited Short Story
526 A Taoist Priest uncredited Short Story
528 Simple Wang Leslie Bonnet Short Story
531 Faithful Even in Death Wolfram Eberhard Short Story
534 The Young Head of the Family uncredited Short Story
537 The Most Frugal of Men uncredited Short Story
539 The Magic Brocade Eric Protter & Nancy Protter & 萧甘牛 Short Story
545 Planting a Pear Tree uncredited Short Story
546 The Groom's Crimes yen Tzu Ch'un Ch'iu Short Story
547 A Clever Judge Chang Shih-nan Short Story
548 Money Makes Cares Wolfram Eberhard Short Story
550 Drinking Companions P'u Sung-Ling Short Story
554 The King's Favorite Han Fei Tzu Short Story
555 The Clever Thief Eric Protter & Nancy Protter Short Story
558 The Tiger's Whisker Harold Courlander Short Story
561 Hats to Disappear With Tanya Lee Short Story
563 Why the Parrot Repeats Man's Words Harold Courlander Short Story
565 Mister Lazybones Tanya Lee Short Story
567 The Fisherman and the Gatekeeper Tanya Lee Short Story
569 The Little Lizard's Sorrow Mai Vo-Dinh Short Story
572 The Fly Mai Vo-Dinh Short Story
575 The Valiant Chattee-Maker uncredited Short Story
581 The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal uncredited Short Story
583 How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam uncredited Short Story
592 How Sun, Moon, and Wind Went Out to Dinner uncredited Short Story
593 The Monkey and the Crocodile Ellen C. Babbitt Short Story
595 Tit for Tat uncredited Short Story
599 How Ma-ui Fished Up the Great Island Padraic Colum Short Story
602 Why There Are No Tigers in Borneo Adele De Leeuw Short Story
605 How the Platypuses Came to Australia K. Langloh Parker Short Story
608 The Bunyip uncredited Short Story
613 Talk Harold Courlander Short Story
615 Anansi's Hat-Shaking Dance Harold Courlander Short Story
618 Anansi and His Visitor, Turtle Edna Mason Kaula Short Story
620 How Spider Obtained the Sky-God's Stories R. S. Rattray Short Story
623 Younde Goes to Town Harold Courlander & W. H. Barker & C. Sinclair Short Story
626 How Frog Lost His Tail Edna Mason Kaula Short Story
627 The Rubber Man Kathleen Arnott Short Story
631 The Origin of Death Ernst Brutzer Short Story
632 Man Chooses Death Sture Lagercrantz Short Story
633 The Woman and the Children of the Sycamore Tree uncredited Short Story
634 The Wise Dog Abayomi Fuja Short Story
638 The Hunter and His Magic Flute Abayomi Fuja Short Story
642 The Funeral of the Hyena's Mother Abayomi Fuja Short Story
644 Oni and the Great Bird Abayomi Fuja Short Story
649 The Wooden Spoon and the Whip Abayomi Fuja Short Story
652 Why There Are Cracks in Tortoise's Shell Edwin W. Smith & A. M. Dale Short Story
653 The Fire on the Mountain Harold Courlander Short Story
657 Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky uncredited Short Story
658 A Tug-of-War Alta Jablow Short Story
663 People Who Could Fly Julius Lester Short Story
665 Baby in the Crib Richard M. Dorson Short Story
666 The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story Joel Chandler Harris Short Story
668 Paul Bunyan's Cornstalk Harold Courlander Short Story
671 The Two Old Women's Bet Richard Chase Short Story
674 Jack in the Giants' Playground Richard Chase Short Story
686 Señor Coyote and the Dogs Dan Storm Short Story
688 The Talking Cat Natalie Savage Carlson Short Story
694 The Indian Cinderella Cyrus Macmillan Short Story
697 The Deserted Children Edward S. Curtis Short Story
699 The Girl Who Married a Ghost Edward S. Curtis Short Story
704 The Lost Woman George Bird Grinnell Short Story
712 The Theft of Fire Thomas Leekley Short Story
718 Manabozho and His Toe uncredited Short Story
719 The Raven Brings Light Edward William Nelson Short Story
721 The Sedna Legend Ronald Melzack Short Story
727 The Magic Orange Tree Diane Wolkstein Short Story
731 Greedy Mariani Remy Bastien Short Story
734 Uncle Bouqui and Little Malice M. A. Jagendorf & R. S. Boggs Short Story
738 Bouki Rents a Horse Harold Courlander Short Story
741 Anansi Play with Fire, Anansi Get Burned M. A. Jagendorf & R. S. Boggs Short Story
745 How El Bizarrón Fooled the Devil Samuel Feijóo Short Story
748 The Story of the Smart Parrot M. A. Jagendorf & R. S. Boggs Short Story
753 How the Devil Constructed a Church Dorothy Sharp Carter Short Story
756 Three Magic Oranges Lupe de Osma Short Story
760 The Lucky Table Lupe de Osma Short Story
763 Brer Rabbit, Businessman Carmen Lyra Short Story
767 The Search for the Magic Lake Genevieve Barlow Short Story
774 The Deer and the Jaguar Share a House Harold Courlander Short Story
776 The Five Brothers Yolando Pino Saavedra Short Story
ix Acknowledgments (Best-Loved Folktales of the World) Joanna Cole Essay
xvii Introduction-Enjoying the World's Folktales Joanna Cole Essay