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The World's Best Fairy Tales

A Reader's Digest Anthology

  • 1967 first published
  • 616 pages
  • 3 editions

Published in 1967, The World's Best Fairy Tales is a mythic fiction and fae fiction story collection by Reader's Digest Association. It is set in the 19th-20th Century Fairy Tales. Readers will find themes of Reader's Digest Association, sixty-nine Fairy Tales, Children and children's.

22 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 3 editions.

It runs to roughly 616 pages — 11–12 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Era

  • 19th-20th Century Fairy Tales

Subjects

  • Reader's Digest Association
  • Belle Becker Sideman, Editor
  • Fritz Kredel, Illustrator
  • Sixty-nine Fairy Tales
  • Children
  • Children's
  • Kid's
  • Juvenile
  • Classics
  • Classic
  • Anthology
  • Anthologies
  • Legends
  • Fantasy
  • Fairy tales
  • Fairytales

Quick answers

Who wrote The World's Best Fairy Tales?

The World's Best Fairy Tales was written by Reader's Digest Association and first published in 1967.

What genre is The World's Best Fairy Tales?

It is usually shelved as Myth & Legend Fiction and Fae & Fairy Fiction.

How long is The World's Best Fairy Tales?

The median edition has 616 pages, about 11–12 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The World's Best Fairy Tales?

Readers who like it often enjoy Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, The Chronicles of Narnia and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

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