📚 Fairy Tales

From the hearth to the book: the household tales and the long civilizing of them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject fairy tales in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Blue Fairy Book	Andrew Lang	1889	752
	The Princess and the Goblin	George MacDonald	1872	750
	The Book of Dragons	Edith Nesbit	1973	706
	The Road to Oz	L. Frank Baum	1909	538
	Baum's American Fairy Tales	L. Frank Baum	1901	514
	The Princess and Curdie	George MacDonald	1832	487
	The Red Fairy Book	Andrew Lang	1890	480
	Flower Fables	Louisa May Alcott	1854	448
	Magic Fishbone	Charles Dickens	1911	223
	Japanese fairy tales	Yei Theodora Ozaki	2002	199
	Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	1945	150
	The Canterville Ghost	Oscar Wilde	1887	138
	The Ugly Duckling	Hans Christian Andersen	1851	122
	Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte	Michael Ende	1973	108
	Indian Fairy Tales	Joseph Jacobs	1892	73
	Revolting rhymes	Roald Dahl	1982	64
	The emperor's new clothes	Hans Christian Andersen	1945	52
	The Tale of Despereaux	Kate DiCamillo	2003	52
	Rotkäppchen	Charles Perrault	1945	41
	Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard	Eleanor Farjeon	1921	39
	Cinder	Marissa Meyer	2011	33
	Old-fashioned fairy tales	Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing	1800	32
	Beauty	Robin McKinley	1978	31
	Fairy tales	Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]	1800	27
	A Court of Wings and Ruin	Sarah J. Maas	2017	26
	Tree and Leaf	J.R.R. Tolkien	1964	24
	Irish fairy and folk tales	William Butler Yeats	1800	22
	The Land of the Blue Flower	Frances Hodgson Burnett	1909	19
	Rapunzel	Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]	1960	18
	Myths and folk-lore of Ireland	Jeremiah Curtin	1890	13

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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