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Spells of enchantment : the wondrous fairy tales of Western culture /

Comprehensive anthology of fairy tales which are written especially for adults, in English.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zipes, Jack, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1991.
Subjects:
Fairy tales > History and criticism.
Oral tradition.
Civilization, Western.
Fairy tales > History and criticism.
Oral tradition > History and criticism.
Contes de fées > Histoire et critique.
Tradition orale.
Civilisation occidentale.
Civilization, Western
Fairy tales
Oral tradition
Märchen
Erwachsener
Geschichte
Anthologie
Europa
Tales
fairy tales.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fairy tales.
Contes de fées.
Table of Contents:
  • The tale of the singing branch, the bird of truth, and the water of youth / Henri Pourrat
  • The king of the elves / Philip K. Dick
  • The enchanted palace / Italo Calvino
  • Five men and a swan / Naomi Mitchison
  • Bluebeard's daughter / Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • The crow / Christoph Meckel
  • Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal / Stanislaw Lem
  • Sleeping Beauty / Gunter Kunert
  • Hans my hedgehog / Janosch
  • The dead queen / Robert Coover
  • The lady and the merman / Jane Yolen
  • Rumpelstiltskin / Rosemarie Kunzler
  • Tom Thumb runs away / Michel Tournier
  • The tiger's bride / Angela Carter
  • The princess and the frog / Robin McKinley
  • When the clock strikes / Tanith Lee
  • Pichounetta and the Sergeant of Arles / Michael De Larrabeiti.
  • Red / Wilhelm Grimm
  • Bluebeard's ghost / William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Feathertop / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen
  • Spiegel the cat / Gottfried Keller
  • Hinzelmeier / Theodor Storm
  • The day boy and the night girl / George MacDonald
  • The griffin and the minor canon / Frank Stockton
  • The three clever kings / Mary De Morgan
  • The fisherman and his soul / Oscar Wilde
  • Where to lay the blame / Howard Pyle
  • The tale of the 672nd night / Hugo von Hofmannsthal
  • A Chinese fairy-tale / Laurence Housman
  • The queen of Quok / L. Frank Baum
  • Dreams that have no moral / William Butler Yeats
  • The five boons of life / Mark Twain
  • The story of Jubal, who had no "I" / August Strindberg
  • How treason came to Russia / Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The story of the fairy tale / Carl Ewald
  • The seven wives of Bluebeard / Anatole France
  • The vegetational fatherhood / Mynona
  • The kith of the elf-folk / Lord Dunsany
  • The forest dweller / Hermann Hesse
  • Cinderella continued, or, The rat and the six lizards / Guillaume Apollinaire
  • The three wishes / Kurt Schwitters
  • The seventh dwarf / Franz Hessel
  • The fairy tale about technology / Alfred Doblin
  • The girl and the wolf / James Thurber
  • The fairy tale of the king / Georg Kaiser
  • The fairy tale about common sense / Erich Kastner
  • The smile of the Sphinx / Ingeborg Bachmann.
  • Cupid and Psyche / Apuleius
  • Of feminine subtlety / Gesta Romanorum
  • The pig prince / Giovanni Straparola
  • The merchant's two sons / Giambattista Basile
  • Ricdin-Ricdon / Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier
  • Riquet with the tuft / Charles Perrault
  • Green serpent / Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy
  • Parslinette / Charlotte-Rose de La Force
  • Prince Ahmed and the fairy Pari-Banou / Antoine Galland
  • The queen Fantasque / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • The white bull / Voltaire
  • Libussa / Johann Karl August Musaus
  • The philosophers' stone / Christoph Martin Wieland
  • The fairy tale / Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  • Eckbert the Blond / Ludwig Tieck
  • A wondrous Oriental tale of a naked saint / Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
  • Hyacinth and Roseblossom / Novalis
  • The mines of Falun / E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • The Lady of Gollerus / T. Crofton Croker
  • Snow White and Rose.