Classics on our site come in two kinds. Half are short, illustrated stories for beginning readers, and the other half are much longer works for students in eighth grade and above. The beginner stories are simple and direct, while the older ones use satire and parody to reveal politics and human nature.

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“The Three Billy Goats Gruff” is a Norwegian fairy tale gathered form oral tradition by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr (1841–1844).