What is the name of the book which contains the fairy tales pre-disney, which were gothic?

Question

I was told that there was a book something like The Red Book or such that had the original fairy tales in them such as Cinderella and how she sentences who wicked stepmother and sisters to be killed and such. Does anyone know of such a book and who published it?

Answer 1

You're thinking of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books. They are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.

Many of them were illustrated by Henry J. Ford. Lancelot Speed also did some illustrations.

The Books:
Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Red Fairy Book (1890)
Green Fairy Book (1892)
Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
Pink Fairy Book (1897)
Grey Fairy Book (1900)
Violet Fairy Book(1901)
Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
Brown Fairy Book (1904)
Orange Fairy Book (1906)
Olive Fairy Book (1907)
Lilac Fairy Book (1910)

Answer 2

There is a whole series of fairy tale books with color titles. They are all edited by Andrew Lang and they collect fairy tales from around the world.

They are:
The Blue Fairy Book
The Red Fairy Book
The Green Fairy Book
The Yellow Fairy Book
The Pink Fairy Book
The Grey Fairy Book
The Violet Fairy Book
The Crimson Fairy Book
The Brown Fairy Book
The Orange Fairy Book
The Olive Fairy Book
The Lilac Fairy Book

Answer 3

I've seen, and purchased a book called Fractured Fairytales. There are also some great gay themed childrens stories recently produced for UK schools. Cinderfella etc all seem a bit tired. Have you thought about some of the really ancient gay themed stories .... Hermes and Aphrodites child: Hermaphrodite and some of the third sex Indian stories. In all of these the quality of the illustration would give the book a market difference. Yes I would purchase a quality gay themed childrens book. One of my favourite books as a child was Beebo and Mop and the Fizzimen ... by Phillipe Fix (it turns out he wrote a series of gay themed, socially challenging books!). Brilliant! Good Luck

Answer 4

The Grimm Brothers wrote a bunch of fairy tales as well as Hans Christian Anderson.

Answer 5

I had heard of a book a few years ago called Grimms Grimmest. It was supposed to be a collection of how the brothers really told the stories which weren't bedtime tales for small children.

Answer 6

The Bros Grimm Fairy Tales...and it is available at any barnes and noble...