Original Fairy Tale Endings

[Anna]

I'm looking for specific editions of fairy tales with the original endings.


Grimm
Giambattista Basile
folk tales etc

[Holly]

Perrault's Fairy Tales
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales
Coloured Fairy Books
Mythology
Aesop's Fables
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

[Carolyn]

What Holly posted, also:
The Green Fairy Book
The Blue Fairy Book
The Brown Fairy Book
The Red Fairy Book
The Pink Fairy Book
The Yellow Fairy Book

and the rest of the rainbow, listed on this series page:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/5528...

[Melanti]

Are you looking for recs on specific translators and editions?

I like this translation of Grimms: The Complete Fairy Tales

This one for the French salon tales including Perrault: Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: Classic French Fairy Tales (Try to get the hardback or full-sized paperback versions, if possible, since the mass market paperbackdoesn't have the original Villinueve version of Beauty & the Beast- only the later abridged version by de Beaumont which is quite different.

I just read a generic random translation of Hans Christian Andersen, so I can't help much with him, but I've been told Tiina Nunnally's translations are good. I don't think translation matters quite as much on these tales though.

I'd recommend the Hussain Haddawy translations of Arabian Nights: The Arabian Nights and The Arabian Nights II: Sinbad and Other Popular Stories (Translation is EXTREMELY important with these stories! If you don't believe me, check out my review! I have a couple of passages in multiple translations at the bottom.)

I can't help you too much with Giambattista Basile... I have Italian Folktales on my TBR, but since I haven't read it yet, I don't know how much of Basile's work it includes nor can I say how good the translation is.

For an all-purpose, worldwide collection, these two are both good: Favorite Folktales from Around the World and Folktales Told Around the World


Fairy tales & Folktales in general is quite a broad topic... Is there a specific author or area of the world that you're particularly interested in?

[Anna]

Yes, I'm looking for specific editions (edited my post to make it clear)

Your review of The Arabian Nights was very helpful, thanks.

I'm particularly interested in European and Asian folk tales but any other would do.

[Tim]

For Brothers Grimm, you should check out the various editions translated by Ralph Manheim. They are "unsanitized", featuring the tales as "rediscovered in the original German editions of the Grimms' works the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded."

[Michele]

Italian Folktales is excellent.

[Michele]

Ooh, also The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm.

[Anna]

thanks