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Also Known As	art fairy tale • magic tale • wonder tale • Kunstmärchen

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Cinderella and Prince Charming dance together in a grand ballroom in the animated film Cinderella (1950) by Walt Disney.

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Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Hans Christian Andersen

Danish author

Giambattista Basile

Italian author

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

E.T.A. Hoffmann

German writer, composer, and painter

Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss

Adelbert von Chamisso

German-language lyricist

Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann

Danish author

Charles Perrault

French author

Clemens Brentano

German author

Andrew Lang

British scholar

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué

German writer

L. Frank Baum

American author

Frederik Willem van Eeden

Dutch author and physician

Countess d'Aulnoy, detail of an engraving by Basan after a painting by Élisabeth Chéron

Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, countess d’Aulnoy

French author

James Stephens

Irish writer

Jonas Lie

Norwegian author

Angela Carter

British author

Howard Pyle

American writer and illustrator

Wilhelm Hauff

German writer

Red Riding Hood and the Wolf from "Journeys through Bookland" by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922. (Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood, fairy tales)

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