Websites for Out of Print Texts and Downloadable Books.

The following links will provide access to websites for out of print texts and downloadable books:

http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/
- all the Andrew Lang colour fairy books.

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html
- listing of annotated fairy tales, 1660 fairy tales and 40 ebooks of stories.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
- Ashlimans’ site for folk tales - he lists them under themes so that you get 15 variants of Cinderella, or folktales that have "abduction by aliens”.

http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/
- has a mixture of folk tales and historical papers.

http://www.theoi.com
- website for classical myths.

http://chestofbooks.com/fairy-tale/index.html
- another useful collection of out of print folk tale and fairy tale books that you can download.

http://www.ferrum.edu/applit/
- Appalachian Folktales in Children's Literature and Collections for all ages.

http://www.archive.org/details/handbook ... 00burnuoft
- this website has many books - try the handbook of folklore as a starter!

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
- many free downloadable books!

http://www.sacred-texts.com/
- more texts, including folklore (and opportunity to buy searchable CDs which contains the texts).

http://www.forgottenbooks.org/
  - another source of free downloadable books (which is also a print on demand company which will sell you a paper copy).

http://www.kessinger.net/
- O/K it's not a free download, but a print on demand  access to out of print books (works through Amazon).

 

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