Select Bibliography

Select Bibliography

Over the last two decades, we have read scores of books, looked up dozens of journals and academic papers, and searched the web for stories or information on stories. We felt it would be useful to put together a list of our sources for our readers as well as for our own reference. So here it is, a select bibliography, listing some of our more important and interesting sources. This, though, is a growing list, for we will keep adding to it as we add more stories and more information on our website.

Fables

  • Aesop’s Fables. Trans. V.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 1912.

  • Pancatantra of Visnusarman. Trans. M.R. Kale. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1969.

  • Vishnusharma. Panchatantra. Trans. Rohini Chowdhury. Gurgaon: Puffin Books, Penguin Random House India, 2017.

  • Jataka Tales of the Buddha: Part I, retold by Ken & Visakha Kawasaki. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 30 November 2013.  http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/kawasaki/bl135.html 

  • Hitopadesa: A New Literal Translation from the Sanskrit Text of Prof F Johnson. Trans. Frederic Pincott. London: W.H. Allen and Company, 1880.

  • Wasudeva Ainapure (ed). The Hitopadesa of Narayan Pandit with Various Readings. Bombay: Gopal Narayan and Company, Booksellers and Publishers, 1908.

  • Narayana. The Hitopadesa. Trans. A.N.D. Haksar. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1998.

  • The Fables of Phædrus. Trans. Henry Thomas Riley and Christopher Smart. London: George Bell & Sons, 1887.

  • The Original Fables of La Fontaine. Trans. and Illus. F.C. Tilney. London: J.M. Dent & Sons.

 Folktales

  • Steinberg, Barbara Hope. The Maagic Millstones and other Japanese folk stories. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.

 Fairy Tales

  • The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Illustrated by Harry Clarke, with an Introduction by Thomas Bodkin; as translated by Robert Samber in 1729, later edited by J. E. Mansion. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1922.

  • Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm. Trans. Margaret Hunt. 1884
    (This is a translation of the ‘definitive’ 1857 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. It contains all the 200 tales in the final edition, and is faithful to the original German.)

  • Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Kinder und Hausmarchen, as translated into English. Trans. Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes.

  • Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen [translator and publisher unknown]. This work is in the public domain.

  • Andersen, Hans Christian. Andersen’s Fairy Tales. [translator and publisher unknown]. This work is in the public domain.

  • Jacobs, Joseph (ed). English Fairy Tales. 1890.

  • Jacobs, Joseph (ed). More English Fairy Tales. 1893.

  • Somadeva. Tales from the Kathasaritsagara. Trans. and retold by Rohini Chowdhury. Gurgaon: Puffin Books, Penguin Random House India, 2019.

  • Somadeva. The Kathasaritsagara or Oceans of the Stream of Story. Trans. C.H. Tawney. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1880.

 Myths

  • Baker, Emilie Kip. Stories From Northern Myths. New York: the Macmillan Company, 1914.

  • Chowdhury, Rohini. The Three Princes of Persia. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2005.

  • Dowson, John (ed). A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. 1993 (7th impression).

  • Grimal, Pierre (ed). Larousse World Mythology. Pierre Grimal (ed.). London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1973.

  • Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee. Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

  • Popol Vuh: the Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. Trans: Debbiss Tedlock. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

 Epics Retold

  • Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem. Trans. John Lesslie Hall. Chicago: D.C. Heath & Co., Publishers, 1892

  • Beowulf. Trans. Francis Barton Gummere, 1910

  • Chowdhury, Rohini. The Three Princes of Persia. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2005.

  • Dowson, John (ed). A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. 1993 (7th impression).

  • Harrison, James and Sharp, Robert (eds). Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem. Ginn &Co., 1883

  • Rabb, Kate Milner. National Epics. 1896

General reference

 General reference