I loved (and still love) everything Disney, Hans Christian Anderson, and especially Grimm's stories, which I think are the most readable for adults because they are so dark.

There was this psychologist Bruno Bettelheim who actually went through all of the fairy tales and showed how, they actually teach children about how to be a grown up..

E.g. He has this reading of Cinderella, where he argues that Cinderella has to pick up all the grains of rice before going to the ball, and that teaches children that you need to be mature before finding a mate. (The book is called "The Uses of Enchantment if anyone is interested")

It is nice to think there is wisdom in fairy tales even though most of them have such a crappy attitude toward women..