Fairy Tales & Folklore Books of the 1880s
The 27 most-read fairy tales & folklore books first published between 1880 and 1889, led by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and The Blue Fairy Book (1889).
This list collects 27 books from the 1880s by 22 authors, published between 1880 and 1889. 8 are free to read and 19 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
- FREE🎧
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
- FREE🎧
The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
- FREE🎧
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
- FREE🎧
The Happy Prince and other tales
Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
- FREE🎧
The house of the Wolfings
William Morris
- FREE
The Nursery Alice
Lewis Carroll
- FREE
The Story of Siegfried
James Baldwin, Howard Pyle
Cendrillon
Charles Perrault
- FREE
The Purcell Papers
Sheridan Le Fanu, Alfred Perceval Graves
Die schönsten Märchen
Hans Christian Andersen, Jin-kyeong Lee
- 🎧
Aino Folk-Tales
Basil Hall Chamberlain
- 🎧
Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables
Sir Francis Bacon
- 🎧
Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales
Wilhelm Hauff
- 🎧
Birdie and His Fairy Friends
Margaret T. Canby
- 🎧
Lulu's Library, Volume 2
Louisa May Alcott
- 🎧
Lulu's Library, Volume 3
Louisa May Alcott
- 🎧
Tales of Old Lusitania
Francisco Adolfo Coelho
- 🎧
Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
- 🎧
Wanderings of Oisin
William Butler Yeats
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Ivan the Fool
Leo Tolstoy
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Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes
Charles Godfrey Leland
- 🎧
Old-Fashioned Fairy Book
Constance Cary Harrison
- 🎧
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842
Hans Christian Andersen
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History of Reynard the Fox
Henry Morley
Number Nip, or, The spirit of the Giant Mountains
Mary C. Rowsell, Swan Sonnenschein & Co