Waltey: pravljice, basni, bajke in zgodbe s celega sveta

75 zgodb Fábulas literarias Tomás de Iriarte Fábulas literarias is a collection of original fables by Tomás de Iriarte, first published in 1782. Through animals, objects, and brief allegories, they explore literature, writing, and artistic judgment above all; they ... O viru

37 zgodb Legende sau basmele românilor Petre Ispirescu Petre Ispirescu collected Romanian fairy tales from the oral tradition. His collection Legende sau basmele românilor brings together enchanted kingdoms, impossible tasks, heroes and heroines, and beings from the world ... O viru

12 zgodb American Fairy Tales L. Frank Baum American Fairy Tales is a collection of twelve original fairy tales by L. Frank Baum. The stories are not transcriptions of anonymous folk traditions: Baum wrote them as modern American literary fairy tales. O viru

32 zgodb Pančatantra indijska zbirka pripovedi The Panchatantra is an Indian collection of wisdom tales in which animals, rulers, and advisers reveal political shrewdness, cunning, friendship, and the consequences of rash decisions. Many of its stories have ... O viru

464 zgodb Sou Shen Ji Gan Bao Sou Shen Ji, or In Search of the Supernatural, is a classical Chinese collection of brief accounts of spirits, omens, miracles, and strange events, traditionally attributed to Gan Bao. It survives in a later recension ... O viru

522 zgodb Ezopove basni Ezop / Karl Halm Aesop’s fables are brief, compact, and often mercilessly clear. The animals in them speak like humans, but not to be endearing: they lay bare pride, greed, fear, wisdom, and shortsightedness. O viru

266 zgodb Myths and Legends of Our Own Land Charles M. Skinner Myths and Legends of Our Own Land is an extensive American collection of legends. In his preface, Skinner openly states that he drew his material from written accounts, histories, newspapers, magazines, and oral ... O viru

26 zgodb Tradiciones peruanas Ricardo Palma Tradiciones peruanas is a collection of literary historical miniatures by Ricardo Palma, rooted in Peruvian places, people, archival fragments, and folk tales. Palma gives them his own artistic shape, so they are not ... O viru

244 zgodb Tisoč in ena noč arabska pripovedna tradicija The Thousand and One Nights is a world of frame narratives, tales within tales, disguises, merchants, marvels, and court intrigue. The collection is not a single book with one definitive form, but a long tradition of ... O viru

197 zgodb Uji Shūi Monogatari anonimna srednjeveška zbirka Uji Shūi Monogatari is a medieval Japanese collection of short tales about monks, spirits, miracles, deceptions, and strange events in everyday life. The collection has no single known author and brings together stories ... O viru

50 zgodb Pentameron Giambattista Basile Basile’s Pentamerone is an early, Baroque, and often wild European collection of fairy tales. Many motifs familiar from later versions are rougher here, more visceral, satirical, and linguistically exuberant. O viru

99 zgodb Živalske zgodbe Clare Dillingham Pierson Clara Dillingham Pierson Five books by Clara Dillingham Pierson bring together 99 original animal stories that blend observations of nature with moral lessons. These are not anonymous folktales. The author signed the prefaces to several of her ... O viru

49 zgodb Srpske narodne pripovijetke Vuk Stefanović Karadžić Vuk’s Serbian Folk Tales is a foundational collection of Serbian oral tradition: tales of wonder, humorous stories, tales of trickery and trials. They are recorded in the language through which Vuk Karadžić both ... O viru

104 zgodb Ovidove preobrazbe Ovid Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin poem in fifteen books, in which ancient myths unfold in a stream of transformations: people become stars, trees, birds, stones, rivers, and signs. For Waltey, its importance lies in ... O viru

201 zgodb Grimmove pravljice Jacob in Wilhelm Grimm Grimm’s fairy tales are among Europe’s most influential collections of folk tales and stories reshaped into literary form. In Waltey, they serve as a nexus of motifs: the forest, the prohibition, the trial, the helper ... O viru

14 zgodb Tunisische Märchen und Gedichte Hans Stumme Hans Stumme published the Tunisian tales in a historical Latin-script phonetic transcription of spoken Arabic. This record is valuable as a document of the language and its oral tradition, but it uses a ... O viru

58 zgodb Norske Folkeeventyr Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in Jørgen Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe’s Norske Folkeeventyr is Norway’s foremost collection of folk tales: forests, mountains, trolls, perilous quests, and cunning heroes. The collectors gave the tales literary form ... O viru

19 zgodb Argonavtika Apolonij Rodoški The Argonautica tells of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece. It is a seafaring tale of heroes, trials, foreign shores, and Medea, in which adventure soon becomes a story of choice and the price of magic. O viru

33 zgodb Apolodorjeva knjižnica Apolodor Apollodorus’s Library is a handbook of Greek mythology: genealogies, sequences of events, heroes, gods, and monsters are set out concisely, almost like a map. It is therefore not a collection of fully formed tales, but ... O viru

24 zgodb Odiseja Homer The Odyssey is a story of a long journey home, of recognition and homecoming. In it, epic adventure meets the world of fairy tales: islands, monsters, sorceresses, temptations, and stories told within the story. O viru

8 zgodb Cuentos de la selva Horacio Quiroga Cuentos de la selva para los niños is Quiroga’s 1918 collection of eight original animal tales. The author was born in Salto, Uruguay, and the collection was published in Buenos Aires, but its forest world is closely ... O viru

14 zgodb The Nursery Alice Lewis Carroll The Nursery Alice is Carroll’s own abridged adaptation of Alice for the youngest readers. It is a British literary work, not an American story or a folk tale. O viru

24 zgodb Iliada Homer The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic of wrath, honor, and the war before Troy. In Waltey, we read it as a sequence of powerful narrative scenes: the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon, duels, the siege, the loss of a ... O viru

37 zgodb Cuentos de Navidad, de la patria y antiguos Emilia Pardo Bazán This volume by Emilia Pardo Bazán brings together three groups of her short stories: Christmas and Epiphany stories, patriotic stories, and stories with themes drawn from the past or from history. These are not ... O viru

6 zgodb Beside the Fire Douglas Hyde In his collection Beside the Fire, Douglas Hyde published Irish tales alongside English translations, preserving part of an oral tradition that was rapidly disappearing at the end of the nineteenth century. Waltey uses ... O viru

11 zgodb Perraultove pravljice Charles Perrault Perrault’s fairy tales emerge from the world of French literature and court life. They are often elegant, lucid, and pointed in their morals, while preserving older motifs also familiar from other European traditions. O viru

34 zgodb Mother's Nursery Tales Katharine Pyle In Mother's Nursery Tales, Katharine Pyle collected thirty-four well-known fairy tales. These are not firsthand field records, but her own period literary adaptations of older material; Pyle also illustrated the book. O viru

5 zgodb Živalske pravljice Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter Five stories by Beatrix Potter are brought together in a single work: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Story of Miss Moppet, and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. These are ... O viru

17 zgodb Swahili Tales Edward Steere; pripovedovalci z Zanzibarja Swahili Tales is a historical collection of stories from Zanzibar, edited by Edward Steere. The storytellers and the Swahili text are an important part of the source; Steere’s role in English is that of a mediator ... O viru

139 zgodb Andersenove pravljice Hans Christian Andersen Andersen’s fairy tales are literary, often melancholy, and surprisingly sharp. In his work, the marvelous is not merely an embellishment, but a way of speaking about desire, shame, fragility, childhood, and loneliness. O viru