Spells of Enchantment : The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

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• ISBN13: 9780140127836
• ISBN10: 0140127836
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Zipes brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, giving readers a sense of the history of the genre and its evolution. Includes more than 60 tales by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Grimm, Voltaire, Goethe, Hawthorne, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, and more. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
A Note On The Texts And Acknowledgments	xxxi
Cupid and Psyche (2d century)	1	(27)
Apuleius
Of Feminine Subtlety (c.1300)	28	(4)
Gesta Romanorum
The Pig Prince (1553)	32	(7)
Giovanni Straparola
The Merchant's Two Sons (1634)	39	(9)
Giambattista Basile
Ricdin-Ricdon (1696)	48	(37)
Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier
Riquet with the Tuft (1697)	85	(6)
Charles Perrault
Green Serpent (1697)	91	(24)
Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy
Parslinette (1697)	115	(7)
Charlotte-Rose De La Force
Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou (1714)	122	(38)
Antoine Galland
The Queen Fantasque (1758)	160	(12)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The White Bull (1774)	172	(27)
Voltaire
Libussa (1786)	199	(34)
Johann Karl August Musaus
The Philosophers' Stone (1789)	233	(25)
Christoph Martin Wieland
The Fairy Tale (1795)	258	(23)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Eckbert the Blond (1797)	281	(15)
Ludwig Tieck
A Wondrous Oriental Tale of a Naked Saint (1799)	296	(4)
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
Hyacinth and Roseblossom (1802)	300	(4)
Novalis
The Mines of Falun (1819)	304	(21)
E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Lady of Gollerus (1825)	325	(5)
T. Crofton Croker
Snow White and Rose Red (1837)	330	(7)
Wilhelm Grimm
Bluebeard's Ghost (1843)	337	(20)
William Makepeace Thackeray
Feathertop (1846)	357	(16)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Shadow (1847)	373	(10)
Hans Christian Andersen
Spiegel the Cat (1856)	383	(27)
Gottfried Keller
Hinzelmeier (1857)	410	(19)
Theodor Storm
The Day Boy and the Night Girl (1879)	429	(33)
George MacDonald
The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885)	462	(12)
Frank Stockton
The Three Clever Kings (1888)	474	(8)
Mary De Morgan
The Fisherman and His Soul (1891)	482	(27)
Oscar Wilde
Where to Lay the Blame (1895)	509	(6)
Howard Pyle
The Tale of the 672nd Night (1895)	515	(14)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
A Chinese Fairy-Tale (1898)	529	(7)
Laurence Housman
The Queen of Quok (1901)	536	(8)
L. Frank Baum
Dreams That Have No Moral (1902)	544	(8)
William Butler Yeats
The Five Boons of Life (1902)	552	(3)
Mark Twain
The Story of Jubal, Who Had No ``I'' (1903)	555	(6)
August Strindberg
How Treason Came to Russia (1904)	561	(3)
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Story of the Fairy Tale (1905)	564	(2)
Carl Ewald
The Seven Wives of Bluebeard (1909)	566	(17)
Anatole France
The Vegetational Fatherhood (1913)	583	(5)
Mynona
The Kith of the Elf-Folk (1916)	588	(12)
Lord Dunsany
The Forest Dweller (1917--18)	600	(6)
Hermann Hesse
Cinderella Continued, or the Rat and the Six Lizards (1919)	606	(3)
Guillaume Apollinaire
The There Wishes (1925)	609	(4)
Kurt Schwitters
The Seventh Dwarf (1926)	613	(2)
Franz Hessel
The Fairy Tale About Technology (1935)	615	(4)
Alfred Doblin
The Girl and the Wolf (1939)	619	(1)
James Thurber
The Fairy Tale of the King (1943)	620	(2)
Georg Kaiser
The Fairy Tale About Common Sense (1948)	622	(3)
Erich Kastner
The Smile of the Sphinx (1949)	625	(3)
Ingeborg Bachmann
The Tale of the Singing Branch, the Bird of Truth, and the Water of Youth (1951)	628	(7)
Henri Pourrat
The King of the Elves (1953)	635	(17)
Philip K. Dick
The Enchanted Palace (1956)	652	(6)
Italo Calvino
Five Men and a Swan (1957)	658	(14)
Naomi Mitchison
Bluebeard's Daughter (1960)	672	(14)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Crow (1962)	686	(6)
Christoph Meckel
Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal (1967)	692	(9)
Stanislaw Lem
Sleeping Beauty (1972)	701	(1)
Gunter Kunert
Hans My Hedgehog (1972)	702	(2)
Janosch
The Dead Queen (1973)	704	(9)
Robert Coover
The Lady and the Merman (1976)	713	(3)
Jane Yolen
Rumpelstiltskin (1976)	716	(2)
Rosemarie Kunzler
Tom Thumb Runs Away (1978)	718	(11)
Michel Tournier
The Tiger's Bride (1979)	729	(16)
Angela Carter
The Princess and the Frog (1981)	745	(13)
Robin McKinley
When the Clock Strikes (1983)	758	(14)
Tanith Lee
Pichounetta and the Sergeant of Arles (1988)	772	(19)
Michael De Larrabeiti
Biographical Notes	791	(18)
List Of Illustrations	809