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Brüder Grimm waren die bekannte deutsche Autoren. Die Brüder gelten gemeinsam mit Karl Lachmann und Georg Friedrich Benecke als „Gründungsväter“ der Germanistik. Ebenfalls verbreitet ist die Bezeichnung Gebrüder Grimm. Unter der Bezeichnung als Gebrüder haben sie...

Turkish fairy tales are often full of wise and sobriety. In Turkish Fairy Tales, great attention was given to the beautiful nature, which can be found only in Turkey. You can find different magic such as talking animals, flying horses, birds that magically change into beautiful maidens, quests to...

Turkish fairy tales are often full of wise and sobriety. In Turkish Fairy Tales, great attention was given to the beautiful nature, which can be found only in Turkey. You can find different magic such as talking animals, flying horses, birds that magically change into beautiful maidens, quests to...

John Francis Campbell (1821 – 1885) was a renowned Scottish author and scholar who specialised in Celtic studies. Campbell gained the world popularity due to his Celtic folklore and Gaelic peoples in particular. Most well-known published works are the bilingual Popular Tales of the West Highlands...

Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848–1927) was a british author specialized on folklore. He is known for tales anthologies and collection, works on mythology, ethnology and anthropology. He belived in scientific picture of beliefs and traditions, that could be composed through through the gathering end exploring...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “The Bird of Truth” is a brief story by Andrew Lang about a fisherman who found two beautiful children in a crystal cradle,...

Cendrillon par Charles Perrault est une des versions les plus populaires de cette vieille histoire folklorique européenne. Permettez à vos enfants de plonger dans le monde magique de ce fairytale célèbre avec les caractères célèbres et les aventures...

Oliver Goldsmith was one of the most popular 18th century English writers , poet and playwright, made famous by such works as the series of essays “The Citizen of the World, or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher”, the poem “The Deserted Village” , the novel “The Vicar of Wakefield”, and...

Charles Kingsley was an English priest, historian and novelist, famous mostly for his works Hypatia, Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho! Seriously worried about modern social problems, Kingsley published his first novels Yeast and Alton Locke, comprising labour and social inequality issues. Due to...

"Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated..." Mary Shelley did not really know what to write after the famous agreement at Byron's villa. Each of the members of the company - Percy Bishy Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary herself, doctor Polidori, and Byron's young mistress - was to write a ghost story,...

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Le Fanu worked in many genres but remains...

А.Н. Островский вошел в отечественную литературу как великий драматург и создатель русского национального театра. В своих комедиях и социально-психологических драмах...