Comments on: Classic Tales and Fables

Classic Tales and Fables

Kattullus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:41:39 -0800

including Aesop's Fables, Bulfinch's Mythology, Indian "Why" Stories, tales by Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum and Harriet Beecher Stowe and stories about Abraham Lincoln, Robin Hood and Baron Munchausen. And more! The folk and fairytale collection is particularly rich, with hundreds of stories from all over the world.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:44:42 -0800

Thanks, Kattullus, great find.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:55:24 -0800

Oh my goodness, this is amazing! Thank you so much!

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:05:48 -0800

This is a great resource, thanks!

By: DU

DU — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:09:47 -0800

This is really awesome. My library has the "fabulous" books all on a separate shelf, which is nice, but organized by author which is more or less useless if I want to find "a Paul Bunyan story". Now I can print these out to read to the kids.

By: salvia

salvia — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:25:08 -0800

Wow, thanks.

By: heyho

heyho — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:12:16 -0800

Thanks, Kattullus; nice. Was wondering what the hell to do today while I'm at work.

By: asfuller

asfuller — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:33:05 -0800

Awesome. Just awesome. Bests on how long before Disney tries to shut the site down, claiming copyright on certain characters and "properties"?

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:30:39 -0800

Thumbs up. Was looking for easy kid-to-sleep material the other night, could've used this then. (He currently falls asleep listening to Bill Cosby or Nirvana.)

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:41:21 -0800

Needs more pictures. Beatrix Potter without pictures is just wrong.

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:18:37 -0800

Very nice.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:32:14 -0800

I don't know why anyone would read plain-text / HTML when the original illustrated versions are freely available online. I mean, the layout and illustrations are a big part of what made classic fairy-tale books so great. Example: Beatrix Potter ("Flip Book" to view) Google Books also has them. So do many other sites. Even if you want plain text, how is this site any different from Gutenberg (which is most likely where it came from to begin with). I don't mean to be so negative about it but there are 100s of sites that scrape content from Gutenberg - many with adds but not in this case.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:21:13 -0800

Well, the way I like to think of places like that is that they act as filters for the available information. For instance, I never would have thought to flit between, say, Australian aboriginal tales, Oscar Wilde, Aesop and Baron Munchausen. It's also a ready-made collection of a certain type of text.

By: mkim

mkim — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:37:40 -0800

This is great - bookmarked. Thanks!

By: lelilo

lelilo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:14:32 -0800

Yes, definitely bookmark material. Thank you, Kattullus. (If I wasn't so much of a grasshopper, I would have my bookmarks much better organized.)

By: sandraregina

sandraregina — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:59:18 -0800

I am always on the lookout for new sites on fables and folktales. I use Folktexts a great deal, which divides folktales by subject matter. It also has an extensive Germanic folktale section. I'm happy to add Rick Walton's site to my bookmarks, though. This is fantastic.