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Tales Told Aloud

The dataset contains a collection of classic literary works, primarily fables and fairy tales, including their titles, authors, genres, languages, countries of origin, and publication years. This collection appears to focus on well-known stories that have been passed down through generations, originating from various cultures.

  1. Title: The name of the literary work.
  2. Author: The individual or group credited with writing the story.
  3. Genre: The category or type of literature, such as fable or fairy tale.
  4. Language: The language in which the work was originally written.
  5. Country of Origin: The nation where the story is believed to have originated.
  6. Year Published: The year when the literary work was first published or reported.

Sample Data

Title Author Genre Language Country of Origin Year Published
The Tortoise and the Hare Aesop Fable English Ancient Greece 600 BC
Little Red Riding Hood Charles Perrault Fairy Tale French France 1697
The Boy Who Cried Wolf Aesop Fable English Ancient Greece 600 BC
Cinderella Charles Perrault Fairy Tale French France 1697
Snow White The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale German Germany 1812
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Robert Southey Fairy Tale English England 1837
The Three Little Pigs Traditional Fairy Tale English England Unknown
Jack and the Beanstalk Traditional Fairy Tale English England Unknown
The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Danish Denmark 1843
The Princess and the Pea Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Danish Denmark 1835
Beauty and the Beast Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve Fairy Tale French France 1740
The Fisherman and His Wife Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale German Germany 1812
The Gingerbread Man Traditional Fable English England Unknown
Rumpelstiltskin The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale German Germany 1812
The Elves and the Shoemaker The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale German Germany 1812
The Emperor's New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Danish Denmark 1837
The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1922
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1902
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Novel English United States 1876
The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper Children's Literature English United States 1930
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1908
Peter Pan J.M. Barrie Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1911
Charlotte's Web E.B. White Children's Literature English United States 1952
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Children's Literature English United States 1963
Stuart Little E.B. White Children's Literature English United States 1945
Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Children's Literature English Canada 1908
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1865
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1911
The Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo Children's Literature English United States 2003
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Fantasy English United Kingdom 1950
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Fantasy English United Kingdom 1937
The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis Fantasy English United Kingdom 1950
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling Fantasy English United Kingdom 1997
The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1999
Matilda Roald Dahl Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1988
Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne Children's Literature English United Kingdom 1926
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Children's Literature English United States 1947
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss Children's Literature English United States 1957
Charlotte's Web E.B. White Children's Literature English United States 1952
Grimm's Fairy Tales The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales German Germany 1812
Arabian Nights Anonymous Folklore Arabic Middle East Unknown
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu Novel Japanese Japan 11th century
The Ramayana Valmiki Epic Poetry Sanskrit India Unknown
The Mahabharata Vyasa Epic Poetry Sanskrit India Unknown
The Aeneid Virgil Epic Poetry Latin Ancient Rome 19 BC
Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac Novel English United States 1958
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Novel Portuguese Brazil 1988
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Novel Spanish Colombia 1967
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Novel English United States 1960
1984 George Orwell Dystopian English United Kingdom 1949
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Novel English United States 1951
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Novel English United Kingdom 1813
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Novel Russian Russia 1869
Moby-Dick Herman Melville Novel English United States 1851
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel English United States 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Novel English United Kingdom 1890
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Novel English United Kingdom 1932
The Road Cormac McCarthy Novel English United States 2006
Beloved Toni Morrison Novel English United States 1987
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Novel English United States 1939
Little Women Louisa May Alcott Novel English United States 1868
Frankenstein Mary Shelley Novel English United Kingdom 1818
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Novel English United Kingdom 1890
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novel English United States 1850
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Dystopian English United States 1953
The Fault in Our Stars John Green Young Adult English United States 2012
Looking for Alaska John Green Young Adult English United States 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling Fantasy English United Kingdom 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling Fantasy English United Kingdom 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling Fantasy English United Kingdom 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling Fantasy English United Kingdom 2003
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling Fantasy English United Kingdom 2007
Twilight Stephenie Meyer Fantasy English United States 2005
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Dystopian English United States 2008
The Maze Runner James Dashner Dystopian English United States 2009
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Science Fiction English United States 1985
The Martian Andy Weir Science Fiction English United States 2011
Dune Frank Herbert Science Fiction English United States 1965
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Science Fiction English United Kingdom 1979
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Dystopian English United Kingdom 1932
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Science Fiction English United States 1969
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Science Fiction English Canada 2014
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Dystopian English Canada 1985
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Science Fiction English United Kingdom 2005
The Time Machine H.G. Wells Science Fiction English United Kingdom 1895
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Adventure English United Kingdom 1719
Tales of the Unexpected Roald Dahl Short Stories English United Kingdom 1979
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov Short Stories Russian Russia 1890
The Lottery Shirley Jackson Short Story English United States 1948
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story English United States 1843
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Novella German Austria 1915
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Short Story English United States 1892
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Short Story English United States 1890
Miss Brill Katherine Mansfield Short Story English New Zealand 1920
A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor Short Story English United States 1955
The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin Short Story English United States 1894
The Dead James Joyce Short Story English Ireland 1914
Cathedral Ray Carver Short Story English United States 1983
Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor Short Story English United States 1965
Girl Jamaica Kincaid Short Story English Antigua 1978
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Epic Poetry Italian Italy 1320
Beowulf Anonymous Epic Poetry Old English England Unknown
The Odyssey Homer Epic Poetry Ancient Greek Greece Unknown
The Iliad Homer Epic Poetry Ancient Greek Greece Unknown
The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser Epic Poetry English United Kingdom 1590
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Epic Poetry Middle English United Kingdom 1400
Paradise Lost John Milton Epic Poetry English United Kingdom 1667