About
This digital library contains a collection of materials on fairy tales originating from Europe and dating from the 18th century to the 20th century. Materials on fairy tales include books, images, videos, journal articles and other similar material either about the stories themselves, their authors or how artists have envisioned these stories. The materials on fairy tales featured in this collection will come from various cultures and locations across Europe. Collections on well-known fairy tale authors and famous fairy tale stories or characters can also be found in this digital library. In addition, scholarly discussions on how fairy tales have impacted areas of society such as media, genres of literature and art can be found in this digital library. Lastly, the materials themselves will be compiled from sources such as Project Gutenberg, Hathi Trust, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the British Library Digital Collections.
Mother goose reading stories.
What are Fairy Tales?
Fairy tales are often characterized by the inclusion of mythical entities, like unicorns or dragons, in their stories. They also do not typically reference actual places, times, events, or people. It is common for many fairy tales to begin their stories with the phrase “once upon a time.” Fairy tales can be short stories or stories containing multiple chapters.
Who is the Collection for?
This collection is for scholars, educators and fairy tale enthusiasts interested in exploring these genres of literature whose origins are closely associated with European culture. Fairy tales provide adequate learning material to examine basic story development, character development, and depictions of cultural values and behaviors found in Europe.
Disclaimer:
This digital library is an educational project of a student from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Library and Information Science Program class LIS 676 Creating Digital Libraries. All of the content used was purposefully aimed to be under public domain and open access licence, and collected form other digital libraries that have explicitly stated such terms of reuse of content. This digital library was created only to demonstrate learning objectives of the class. This digital library was under no circumstance intending to breach copyright. In case you think have done so, please contact us ASAP, and we will make sure to remove the questionable content in the shortest possible period.