Reader, you have picked up the three-volume book “Great Storytellers of the World.” Of course, the greatest storyteller has always been the people. But, oddly enough, the folk tale was not taken seriously by writers for a long time. Charles Perrault was one of the first to feel her charm. He “let” the fairy tale into mainstream literature. Of the Russian writers, the great Pushkin was the first to do this. Then the “King of Storytellers” appeared - Andersen. And after him, an increasing number of writers took up the pen to create “their own” fairy tale. And if they succeeded, the people accepted them as great. And, really, there are not so many of them. For the fairy tale is perhaps one of the most difficult and demanding genres.