Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140127836 ISBN 13: 9780140127836

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

"Spells of Enchantment" brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, arranged to provide a sense of the history and evolution of this ancient genre. Focusing on the work of the most gifted writers of the great Western literary movements from classical times to the present, Jack Zipes's collection shows how some of literature's most creative minds have tried their hand at mixing the magic ingredients of the fairy tale - and how the genre has been marvelously transformed according to each writer's particular genius.Including more than sixty tales by such master practitioners of the art as Perrault, Voltaire, Goethe, Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Wilde, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Calvino, Philip K. Dick, Robert Coover, and Angela Carter, this authoritative, original, and unique volume is sure to bewitch readers of all ages.

About this title

Synopsis:

Gathers literary fairy tales by authors from Apuleius, Charles Perrault, Wilhelm Grimm, and Nathaniel Hawthorne to James Thurber, Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem, and Jane Yolen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140127836
• ISBN 13: 9780140127836
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848