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  • The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmPerhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never-Ending Tales

    Stories from the Golden Age of Jewish Literature

    by Jack Zipes ...
    An anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hopeBetween the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewish writers in Europe and America published countless stories addressing “the Jewish Question”—the intense debate about the treatment of Jews following their so-called ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

    by Oscar Wilde, Jack Zipes ...
    The master of wit and ironyPublished here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    The Complete First Edition

    by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack Zipes ...
    The original version of the Grimms' tales in English for the first time—in an acclaimed, illustrated editionWhen Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    An Anthology of Magical Tales

    Edited by Jack Zipes ...
    A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales—in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Clark Lectures
    " Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Arabian Nights, Volume I

    The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Arabian Nights
    Enjoy the timeless tales of Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more in this first volume of The Arabian Nights.Upon learning of his queen’s infidelity, proud King Shahryar has her killed. As revenge on womankind, he decides to wed a different virgin every night, only to have her beheaded at dawn. Such is Shahryar’s practice for three terrible years—until he weds Scheherazade ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp

    by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ...
    Translated by Sibelan Forrester ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propp's later work The Russian Folktale.Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lost and Found or How the Wellikans Helped the Twins Avoid a Catastrophe

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The twin witches, Anja and Zack, are left stunned when they discover that Nexus, the sinister dictator, has escaped death and been reborn as an even more dangerous monster bent on world domination. Together with their allies, the Wellikans, the twins embark on a series of adventures, standing in Nexus's way at every turn. Yet each victory comes at a cost, and it is far from certain that they can ... Read more

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  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Giuseppe Pitrè ...
    Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again . . . .So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may sound as if they've been told time and again—such as variations on Cinderella and Puss in Boots—many will enchant English-language readers and ... Read more

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