Beauty and the Beast: And Other Classic French Fairy Tales5 reviews Various Signet Classics, 1997 Great collection of French fairy tales + The Best Collection I Have Ever Read + From Marketing to Marked: How to Win Maidens Fair + Classic fairy tales--and some others. + Entertaining and Informative             The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales [Three Volumes] Greenwood Press, 2007 Folk and fairy tales exist in all cultures and are at the heart of civilization. The most comprehensive work of its kind, this massive Encyclopedia gives students and general readers a broad, accessible, multicultural survey of folk and fairy tales from around the world. Edited by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, the Encyclopedia draws on the work of numerous expert contributors ...             Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France1 review Wayne State University Press, 1997 An interesting collection of essays Nancy Canepa organized a conference about fairy tales and then edited this collection of essays that were presented. Included is an essay by the prolific Jack Zipes about tales similar to Puss In Boots. All of the essays discuss the often overlooked "Il Penatmerone" by Giambattista Basile, an ...             Fairy Tale in the Ancient World1 review Graham Anderson Routledge, 2000 Connecting Fairy Tales with the Classics Having had this book in my personal collection for a few years now, I cannot praise it highly enough. As any folklorist knows, similar story threads exist across cultures and time. Why does this happen? One influence may have been the classic mythology from the Greeks and Romans. Graham ...             Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)6 reviews Hans Christian Andersen, Erik Christian Haugaard Anchor, 1983 The best there is + An absolute for the fairy tale completist + Excellent Collection of Favorites! + The Ugly Duckling. The Little Mermaid. It's all here! + gorgeous and well-crafted.             The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (Norton Critical Editions)2 reviews W. W. Norton, 2000 A Wonderful Textbook + what a find If I was teaching a course on fairy tales, this book would be the course's primary text. Editor Jack Zipes compiled the book with such a purpose in mind and it's a job well done. The largest section, The Texts of the Great Fairy Tale Tradition, is comprised of fairy tale texts grouped into over ...             Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones" (Fairy-Tale Studies) (Fairy-Tale ... Giambattista Basile Wayne State Univ Pr, 2007 The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. The tales are bawdy and irreverent but also tender and whimsical, acute in psychological characterization and encyclopedic in description. They are ...             The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions)10 reviews W. W. Norton, 1999 A Guide to Fairy Tales + Excellent + Just what she needed + A Reference in the Genre + The Basis For Many Fairytales             Russian Fairy Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)12 reviews Aleksandr Afanasev Pantheon, 1976 Very different from what I grew up on. + A real treasure! + Gives me a deeper fascination with Russian culture + Russian Fairy Tales + Great Rendition Of Russian Folklore.             The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition31 reviews Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm Bantam, 2003 All the classics and then some! + Grim, grimmer, grimmest + Colorful and Easy to Read + Doesn't miss a thing...             Grimm's Grimmest21 reviews Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar Chronicle Books, 2005 The Grimm's Grimmest, Indeed! + An adequate introduction to the grim Grimm's stories, but lacks breadth and commentary. Moderately recommended + Not your father's fairy tales If you're looking for a Disney version of your favorite fairy tales, you're not going to find it here. The Grimm's Grimmest is a fantastic compilation of some of the Brothers Grimm's darkest tales, as they were originally meant to be read. These tales illustrate a world where humans are suitable ...             Norwegian Folktales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)6 reviews Peter Christen Asbjornsen, Jorgen Moe Pantheon, 1982 Norway's Greatest Treasure... + glorious, ethnographically utile chrestomathy + Norwegian Folktales + One for the Desert Island Library + You speak Norwegian like an American ...             English Fairy Tales: Collected by Joseph Jacobs1 review Joseph Jacobs Adamant Media Corporation, 2003 The English Brother Grimm Joseph Jacobs collected folk and fairy tales on the British Isles over a hundred years ago. His work is fascinating and useful for a teller of tales, such as myself. In his collections you will find some variations of tales collected by Brothers Grimm and others that are unique to English or Gaelic ...             From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers9 reviews Marina Warner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 Excellent + From the Beast to the Blonde on Fairy Tales and Their Tellers + Fab Find for Fairy Tale Fans + One of My Favorites + There is witchcraft in your voice ...             From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto De Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale Nancy L. Canepa Wayne State University Press, 1999             Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Ruth B. Bottigheimer University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. ...             Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies Jan M. Ziolkowski University of Michigan Press, 2007 When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the ...             The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales5 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Excellent imperfect resource for Western literary fairy tale + informative and entertaining + Outstanding guide to fairy tales, old and new + An excellent reference tool             The Annotated Brothers Grimm8 reviews Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 The Annotated Brothers Grimm + Fun reading, look good on the bookcase + magical mix of stories and pictures + Love It!!             The Classic Fairy Tales3 reviews Iona Opie, Peter Opie Oxford University Press, USA, 1980 Fairy tales as they were first printed in the English lang. + One of my favorite books of all time + An invaluable reference I first read this book in 1983, and was amazed with it then. It's unique and extremely interesting. Iona and Peter Opie have the original tales as first printed in the English language. Added to that is the history and the actual gruesome origins of what we now consider children's stories! For ...