num_pages: 848
description: 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.CONTENTSCupid and Psyche by Apuleius Of feminine subtlety by Gesta Romanorum The pig prince by Giovanni Straparola The merchant's two sons by Giambattista Basile Ricdin-Ricdon by Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier Riquet with the tuft by Charles Perrault Green serpent by Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy Parslinette by Charlotte-Rose de La Force Prince Ahmed and the fairy Pari-Banou by Antoine Galland The queen Fantasque by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The white bull by Voltaire Libussa by Johann Karl August Musaus The philosophers' stone by Christoph Martin Wieland The fairy tale by Johann Wolfgang Goethe Eckbert the Blond by Ludwig Tieck A wondrous Oriental tale of a naked saint by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder Hyacinth and Roseblossom by Novalis The mines of Falun by E.T.A. Hoffmann The Lady of Gollerus by T. Crofton Croker Snow White and Rose Red by Wilhelm Grimm Bluebeard's ghost by William Makepeace Thackeray Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne The shadow by Hans Christian Andersen Spiegel the cat by Gottfried Keller Hinzelmeier by Theodor Storm The day boy and the night girl by George MacDonald The griffin and the minor canon by Frank Stockton The three clever kings by Mary De Morgan The fisherman and his soul by Oscar Wilde Where to lay the blame by Howard Pyle The tale of the 672nd night by Hugo von Hofmannsthal A Chinese fairy-tale by Laurence Housman The queen of Quok by L. Frank Baum Dreams that have no moral by William Butler Yeats The five boons of life by Mark Twain The story of Jubal, who had no "I" by August Strindberg How treason came to Russia by Rainer Maria Rilke The story of the fairy tale by Carl Ewald The seven wives of Bluebeard by Anatole France The vegetational fatherhood by Mynona The kith of the elf-folk by Lord Dunsany The forest dweller by Hermann Hesse Cinderella continued, or, The rat and the six lizards by Guillaume Apollinaire The three wishes by Kurt Schwitters The seventh dwarf by Franz Hessel The fairy tale about technology by Alfred Doblin The girl and the wolf by James Thurber The fairy tale of the king by Georg Kaiser The fairy tale about common sense by Erich Kastner The smile of the Sphinx by Ingeborg Bachmann The tale of the singing branch, the bird of truth, and the water of youth by Henri Pourrat The king of the elves by Philip K. Dick The enchanted palace by Italo Calvino Five men and a swan by Naomi Mitchison Bluebeard's daughter by Sylvia Townsend Warner The crow by Christoph Meckel Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal by Stanislaw Lem Sleeping Beauty by Gunter Kunert Hans my hedgehog by Janosch The dead queen by Robert Coover The lady and the merman by Jane Yolen Rumpelstiltskin by Rosemarie Kunzler Tom Thumb runs away by Michel Tournier The tiger's bride by Angela Carter The princess and the frog by Robin McKinley When the clock strikes by Tanith Lee Pichounetta and the Sergeant of Arles by Michael De Larrabeiti.
language: English
title: Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
titlecomplete: Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
genres: Fiction, Reference, Short Stories, Folk Tales, Anthologies, Classics, Mythology, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folklore
ratings_count: 277
publisher: Viking Adult