Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
by Tanith Lee and Mark Twain and Hermann Hesse and Oscar Wilde and Philip K. Dick and E.T.A. Hoffmann and Voltaire and Robin McKinley and Jane Yolen and Italo Calvino and Hans Christian Andersen and W.B. Yeats and Theodor Storm and August Strindberg and Rainer Maria Rilke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm and Jack Zipes and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Angela Carter and Robert Coover and Stanisław Lem and Anatole France and William Hawthorne and James Thurber and Sylvia Townshend Warner and Michael De Larrabeiti and Charles Perrault
"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.
Release Date:
November 30, 1992
