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• xi • Introduction: Tales of Wonder and Adventure • essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 • A Bag of Poetry • short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 4 • Beauty and the Beast • (1757) • short story by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (trans. of La belle et la bête)
• 18 • The Bells of Carillon-Land • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of Belinda and Bellamant 1906) [as by Edith Nesbit]
• 34 • The Birthday Battle • short story by Louise Cooper
• 49 • Blue Roses • (1903) • short story by Netta Syrett
• 60 • The Boy Who Plaited Manes • (1986) • short story by Nancy Springer
• 74 • The Castle • (1864) • short story by George MacDonald
• 88 • Cinderella or, The Little Glass Slipper • [Cendrillon] • (1729) • short story by Charles Perrault (trans. of Cendrillon ou La petite pantoufle de verre 1697)
• 96 • The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 113 • The Cloak of Friendship • (1905) • short story by Laurence Housman
• 123 • The Cotton-Wool Princess • (1892) • short story by Luigi Capuana (trans. of La figlia del Re 1885)
• 133 • The Drawing School • (1913) • short story by J. Muñez Escomez
• 138 • The Dutch Cheese • juvenile • (1908) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 145 • The Elves • (1823) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812)
• 165 • The Enchanted Watch • short story by František Bayer (trans. of Hloupý Jenik 1874) [as by Charles Deulin (in error)]
• 170 • The Enchanted Whistle • juvenile • (1891) • short story by Alexandre Dumas (trans. of Le sifflet enchanté 1859)
• 177 • The Fairy Gift • (1925) • short story by Charlotte Brontë (variant of The Four Wishes 1918)
• 188 • The Forest Fairy • (1869) • short story by Lord Brabourne
• 201 • The Forest of Dreams • short story by Lawrence Schimel (variant of Atmospheric Conditions 1994)
• 204 • The Girl Who Loved the Wind • juvenile • (1972) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 209 • The Glass Dog • (1901) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 218 • The Green Bird • (1894) • short story by Laurence Housman
• 226 • The Happy Prince • juvenile • (1888) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• 236 • How Wry-Face Played a Trick on One-Eye • (1908) • short story by Agnes Grozier Herbertson
• 243 • Jack and the Beanstalk • (1912) • short story by Anonymous
• 253 • The Knave and the Fool • juvenile • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing (variant of Knave and Fool 1872) [as by Juliana H. Ewing]
• 260 • Little Red Riding Hood • short story by Laura Valentine
• 271 • Little Snowdrop; or, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 53] • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of
  Sneewittchen (Schneeweißchen)^?Sneewittchen (Schneeweisschen)
  1812) [as by The Brothers Grimm]
• 281 • The Mad-Hatter's Tea Party • [Alice] • short story by Lewis Carroll
• 289 • The Mistreated Fellow • (1987) • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 293 • Mother-of-All • short story by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• 307 • The Necklace of Tears • (1896) • short story by Mrs. Egerton Eastwick
• 318 • The Night the Stars Were Gone • (1977) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 327 • Old Pipes and the Dryad • (1885) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 345 • The Pied Piper of Hamelin • short story by Charles Marelles (trans. of Le preneur du rats 1888)
• 352 • The Pot of Gold • (1864) • short story by Horace E. Scudder
• 360 • Princess Crystal; or, the Hidden Treasure • (1896) • short story by Isabel Bellerby
• 367 • Princess Sansu • (1972) • short story by Tanith Lee
• 378 • The Rat That Could Speak • (1860) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 384 • Rumpelstiltskin • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 55] • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Rumpelstilzchen 1812) [as by The Brothers Grimm]
• 388 • The Seekers • (1926) • short story by H. E. Bates
• 402 • The Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple • (1870) • short story by Edward Lear (variant of The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple)
• 412 • The Seven Ravens • short story by Ludwig Bechstein (trans. of Die sieben Raben 1845)
• 417 • Sleeping Beauty • [La belle au bois dormant] • short story by Charles Perrault (trans. of La belle au bois dormant 1697)
• 427 • The Snow Queen • juvenile • (1844) • novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Snedronningen 1845)
• 456 • The Story of Nick • (1857) • short story by Christina Rossetti
• 463 • The Three Bears • (1870) • short story by Sarah Baker
• 471 • The Three Goats Named Bruse; or, The Three Billy-Goats Gruff • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 40] • (1859) • short story by
  Peter Asbjørnsen^?Peter Asbjoernsen
  Peter Asbjornsen
  and
  Jørgen Moe^?Joergen Moe
  Jorgen Moe
  (trans. of
  De tre Bukkene Bruse, som skulde gaae til Sæters og gjøre sig fede^?De tre Bukkene Bruse, som skulde gaae til Saeters og gjoere sig fede
  De tre Bukkene Bruse, som skulde gaae til Saeters og gjore sig fede
  1843)
• 473 • The Three Tasks • (1951) • short story by Geraldine Elliot
• 486 • The Touchstone • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 493 • Touk's House • (1985) • novelette by Robin McKinley
• 517 • The Tree's Wife • (1978) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 523 • The Ugly Duckling • (1909) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of
  Den Grimme Ælling^?Den Grimme AElling
  1843)
• 532 • The Ugly Unicorn • (1991) • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 544 • The Unhappy Princess • (1982) • short story by Richard Cowper
• 562 • The White Cat • novelette by Comtesse d'Aulnoy (trans. of La chatte blanche 1697) [as by Marie-Cathérine d'Aulnoy]