Most adults who read for pleasure started their life-long love affair with books and stories with fairy and traditional folk tales, and as is the case with any lasting love, it can be good idea to go back to it. Thus, if you are looking for a great site to revisit Cinderella, Bluebeard, Goldilocks, or any other fictional fairy tale character, this site is a great way to do it: they present the full unabridged and annotated stories according to the traditional sources, namely Perrault and the Andersen brothers, so it’s a great place for scholars and literature students to get some material and analysis sources from.
If you are working with any of these texts for a paper or research project, make sure you spend a while taking a look at the further reading material provided by the site, like studies of the same motifs and stories in other western and Asian cultures, modern interpretations, reviews of bibliography including not only theory works, but modern fiction which deal with the tales and characters, some of which belong to the rather academy-neglected romantic genre, so if you are looking for some orientation as what to read in the popular/mass culture field, SurLaLuneFairyTales.com can be of help, with a good plus: by clicking the cover you’ll be directed to the book’s page in Amazon, so you needn’t even worry about searching for it. If you happen to be an illustrator in search of some inspiration, don’t miss the gallery of traditional and contemporary imagery and renderings of the fairy tales’ characters. What I really liked best about the site, other than its simple but sophisticated design, is that it caters very effectively for very diverse audiences, from scholars to students and even curious readers.