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Ben Shapiro is an American lawyer, columnist, and conservative political commentator. He was born on January 15, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, and has written sixteen non-fiction books.
A comprehensive list of fairy tales from various regions, countries, and cultures, with dates, authors, and types. Find stories about fairy tale characters such as Cinderella, Snow White, Aladdin, and more.
Learn about the Brothers Grimm, the German folklorists who collected and published the famous fairy tales. Find out their biography, education, career, and the history of their editions and adaptations.
Learn about the plot, publication history, and translations of Twain's 1865 story, his first great success as a writer. The story features a gambler, a frog, and a stranger who cheats him with lead shot.
A fairy tale is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre and features magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. Learn about the origin, classification, and interpretation of fairy tales from various cultures and sources, such as The Jatakas, The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, and The Lilac Fairy Book.
"The Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book Folio Society editions of the Coloured Fairy Books. The best-known volumes of the series are the 12 Fairy Books, each of which is distinguished by its own color.
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left unfinished by the composer, and completed by other hands). The Fair at Sorochyntsi
A German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about two sisters who befriend a bear and a dwarf. The tale is of type ATU 426 and has variants in Germanic, Slavic and Dutch languages.