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    Off with Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

    Maria Tatar

    Exploring how adults mistreat children, this book focuses on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline…

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    Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives

    Maria Tatar

    Analyzes the forms the tale of Bluebeard’s Wife has taken over time, particularly in Anglo-European popular culture. This book documents the fortunes of Bluebeard, his wife, and their marriage in…

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    The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition

    Maria Tatar

    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household…

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    Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

    Maria Tatar

    One of our most beloved and elemental fairy tales, in versions from across the centuries and around the world-published to coincide with Disney’s live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson…

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    The Classic Fairy Tales

    Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.

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    The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

    A lively account of the historical origins, evolution, dissemination and influence of some of the simplest and most universal stories ever created. Essays by leading scholars from a range of…

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    The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

    A lively account of the historical origins, evolution, dissemination and influence of some of the simplest and most universal stories ever created. Essays by leading scholars from a range of…

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    Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

    Maria Tatar

    Exploring how beauty and horror operate in children’s literature, this book examines why little children love listening to stories and why older ones get lost in certain books. It challenges…

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    The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters

    Maria Tatar

    Versions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions of Walt Disney and the Brothers…

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    Heroes & Heroines Myths & Tales: Epic Tales

    This anthology gathers together the most iconic and entertaining tales of adventure and daring from around the world. From Perseus the Gorgon-Slayer of Greek mythology, and the exploits of Frithiof…

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    The Annotated Brothers Grimm: Bicentennial Edition

    Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

    This is the book I wanted as a child and didn’t have, the book I’d have liked both to give to my children and to keep for myself, the book…

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    The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    Maria Tatar (Harvard University)

    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.

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    The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    Maria Tatar (Harvard University)

    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman

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    The Fairies Return

    Maria Tatar

    Jack becomes a trickster who must deliver England from the hands of three ogres after a failed government inquiry. In this book, the tales expose social anxieties, political corruption, predatory…

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    The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore.

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    The Annotated Peter Pan

    J. M. Barrie

    Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age. -Mark Twain

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    Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales: Classic Tales

    Hans Christian Andersen

    This latest collection celebrates Hans Christian Andersen’s unique literary output and gathers together much-loved tales such as ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, ‘The Ugly Duckling’, ‘The Princess and…

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    Eight Stories: Tales of War and Loss

    Erich Maria Remarque,Larry Wolff

    Seven of the eight short stories in this collection were originally published in Collier’s magazine. The eighth story, Dreamt Last Night, was published in Redbook magazine.

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    Eight Stories: Tales of War and Loss

    Erich Maria Remarque,Larry Wolff

    Seven of the eight short stories in this collection were originally published in Collier’s magazine. The eighth story, Dreamt Last Night, was published in Redbook magazine.

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    Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology

    In these compelling new essays, leading critics sharpen our understanding of the narrative structures that convey meaning in fiction, taking as their point of departure the narratological positions of Dorrit…

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    PETER PAN: An Illuminated Edition

    J.M. Barrie

    A slipcase hardcover edition of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, brought newly to life by the lavish illustrations of Brecht Evens.

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    The Turnip Princess: And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

    Franz Xaver von Schonwerth

    A volume, in which, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet.

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    Once Upon A Fairytale: Modern Retellings of Classic Fairytales

    Patricia Danaher

    We never forget the stories we were told as children. Even when they aren’t on the top of our mind, they lurk like palm prints on the drying cement foundations…

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    Pixeroma Witcherina

    Maria Porges,Bill Conger

    In the typology of fairy tales, women are routinely reduced to caricatures of innocence or evil, either impossibly saintly and self-sacrificing or malevolent in ways that only the male sex…

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    Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales

    Offers a different perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship to their favorite fairy-tale stories.

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