Andrei Codrescu is a poet, novelist, essayist, and NPR commentator. His many books include
Whatever Gets You through the Night,
The Postmodern Dada Guide, and
The Poetry Lesson (all Princeton). Twitter @acodrescu.
Jack Zipes is the editor of
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Princeton) and
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton).
100 Ebooks by Jack Zipes
Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the ninetee …
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€25.99
Jack Zipes: Breaking the Magic Spell
"Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." -Lore and Language This revised, expanded, and updated edi …
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€19.28
Jack Zipes: Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
‘ 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 histor …
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€27.99
Béla Balázs: The Cloak of Dreams
Intriguing fairy tales by the librettist of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman conv …
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€18.99
Jack Zipes: The Irresistible Fairy Tale
A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world’s leading authorities If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it …
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€25.99
Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The original version of the Grimms’ tales in English for the first time—in an acclaimed, illustrated edition When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children’s and Household Tales in 1812, follo …
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€23.99
Jack Zipes: Grimm Legacies
In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms …
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€33.99
Jack Zipes: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
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 …
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€20.99
Sibelan Forrester: Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the ta …
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€28.99
Jack Zipes: Die Libelle und die Seerose
Denkt man an Märchen und Dänemark, denkt man an Hans Christian Andersen, der im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts in Europa, und besonders in Deutschland, so berühmt wurde, daß er heute immer noch als der M …
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€3.99
Jack Zipes: Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days
This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933 …
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€37.44
Jack Zipes: Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
In over 1, 000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to modern, under the guidance of Professor Jack Zipes. It provides an authoritat …
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€36.02
Jack Zipes: Speaking Out
In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children’s imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master stor …
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€21.83
Jack Zipes: Enchanted Screen
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclu …
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€153.79
Jack Zipes: Relentless Progress
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children’s literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? T …
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€24.41
Giuseppe Pitre: Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre
Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from friend …
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€115.30
Jack Zipes: Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition
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€9.93
Jack Zipes: Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
" 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 h …
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€87.83
Jack Zipes: Breaking the Magic Spell
This 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 provocativ …
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€27.99
Pauline Greenhill & Kendra Magnus-Johnston: Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney
The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres internationally, thanks in large part to its many manifestations on screen. Yet the history and relevance of the fairy-tale fil …
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€60.57
Pauline Greenhill & Kendra Magnus-Johnston: Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney
The fairy tale has become one of the dominant cultural forms and genres internationally, thanks in large part to its many manifestations on screen. Yet the history and relevance of the fairy-tale fil …
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€60.33
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: Why Fairy Tales Stick
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales ‘work’ and others don”t, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture a …
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€47.68
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: Why Fairy Tales Stick
In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales ‘work’ and others don”t, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture a …
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€46.91
Jack Zipes: Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. Bringing together 35 of the best versions of the tale, from the Brothers Grimm to Anne Sexton, Zipes uses the tales to explore questions …
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€47.28
Jack Zipes: Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
Jack Zipes presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. Bringing together 35 of the best versions of the tale, from the Brothers Grimm to Anne Sexton, Zipes uses the tales to explore questions …
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€47.47
Jack Zipes: Sticks and Stones
Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones, Jack Zipes explores children”s literature, from the grissly moralism of Slovenly Peter to the hugely successful Harry P …
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€47.28
Jack Zipes: Sticks and Stones
Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones, Jack Zipes explores children”s literature, from the grissly moralism of Slovenly Peter to the hugely successful Harry P …
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€47.24
Jack Zipes: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
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 whic …
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€46.30
Jack Zipes: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
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 whic …
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€45.89
Jack Zipes: Happily Ever After
First Published in 1997. Happily Ever After is Jack Zipes’s latest work on the fairy tale. Moving from the Renaissance to the present, and between different cultures this book addresses Zipes’s ongoi …
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€46.25
Jack Zipes: Happily Ever After
First Published in 1997. Happily Ever After is Jack Zipes’s latest work on the fairy tale. Moving from the Renaissance to the present, and between different cultures this book addresses Zipes’s ongoi …
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€45.97
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: When Dreams Came True
For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories beco …
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€57.74
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: When Dreams Came True
For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories beco …
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€57.76
Jack Zipes: Hans Christian Andersen
The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen”s birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer fa …
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€46.91
Jack Zipes: Hans Christian Andersen
The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen”s birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer fa …
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€47.53
Jack Zipes: Beautiful Angiola
In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura G …
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€44.48
Jack Zipes: Beautiful Angiola
In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura G …
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€44.96
Jack Zipes: Relentless Progress
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children’s literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? T …
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€46.00
Jack Zipes: Relentless Progress
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children’s literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? T …
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English
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€45.99
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: The Enchanted Screen
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclu …
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€60.48
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: The Enchanted Screen
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclu …
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€60.22
Giuseppe Pitre: Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre
Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from friend …
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€51.46
Giuseppe Pitre: Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre
Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from friend …
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€51.36
Jack Zipes: When Dreams Came True
For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories beco …
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€45.75
Jack Zipes: When Dreams Came True
For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories beco …
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€45.99
Jack Zipes: Robber with a Witch’s Head
The Robber with the Witch’s Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller’s dream, full of adventure and magic, transla …
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€60.57
Jack Zipes: Robber with a Witch’s Head
The Robber with the Witch’s Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller’s dream, full of adventure and magic, transla …
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€60.33
Jack Zipes: Speaking Out
In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children’s imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master stor …
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€46.21
Jack Zipes: Speaking Out
In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children’s imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master stor …
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English
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€45.99
Joseph Russo & Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré
This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks alongside the Brother …
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€49.71
Joseph Russo & Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré
This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks alongside the Brother …
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€50.26
Joseph Russo & Jack Zipes: Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre
This is volume 2 of a two-volume set that collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks …
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€45.06
Joseph Russo & Jack Zipes: Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre
This is volume 2 of a two-volume set that collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks …
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€45.06
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children”s lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention ha …
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€24.09
Jack (University of Minnesota, USA) Zipes: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children”s lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention ha …
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€24.26
Jack Zipes: Creative Storytelling
Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this m …
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€41.40
Jack Zipes: Creative Storytelling
Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this m …
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€41.59
Jack Zipes: Victorian Fairy Tales
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …
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€47.51
Jack Zipes: Victorian Fairy Tales
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …
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€47.53
Jack Zipes: Don”t Bet on the Prince
Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fairy tales and essays to appear since the women”s movement gained momentum in the 1960”s. He has selected works by such gi …
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€44.60
Jack Zipes: Don”t Bet on the Prince
Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fairy tales and essays to appear since the women”s movement gained momentum in the 1960”s. He has selected works by such gi …
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€44.69
Carola Pohlmann & Verena Rutschmann: Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2000/2001
Die siebte Folge des Jahrbuches enthält Beiträge zum (kindlichen und jugendlichen) Leser im Text: Ute Dettmar und Elisabeth Stuck befassen sich mit Kindern als Leser und Laiendarsteller von Kindersch …
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€33.20
Jack Zipes: Complete Fairy Tales
Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of go …
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€10.99
Crane Thomas Frederick Crane: Italian Popular Tales
An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane’s original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis.For 19th-century folklorist Thomas Cran …
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€46.14
Hermynia Zur Mühlen: The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales
A collection of radical political fairy tales—some in English for the first time—from one of the great female practitioners of the genre Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883–1951), one of the twentieth century’ …
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€20.99
Honey on the Page
Winner, 2021 Reference & Bibliography Award in the ‘Reference’ Section, given by the Association of Jewish Libraries An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with or …
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€33.99
Jack Zipes: Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland s unique nineteenth-century tales.Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824 1903) showed a clear interest in …
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€31.91
Madame d’Aulnoy: The Island of Happiness
An enchanting selection of Madame d’Aulnoy’s seventeenth-century French fairy tales, interpreted by contemporary visual artist Natalie Frank Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville (1650–1705), also k …
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€42.99
Marcel Reich-Ranicki: The Author of Himself
Marcel Reich-Ranicki is remarkable for both his unlikely life story and his brilliant career as the ‘pope of German letters.’ His sublimely written autobiography is at once a fascinating adventure ta …
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€46.99
Felix Salten: The Original Bambi
A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten’s celebrated novel Bambi—the original source of the beloved story Most of us think we know the story of Bambi—but do we? The Original Bambi …
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€26.99
Juwen Zhang: The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales
A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These …
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€20.99
Nancy L. Canepa: Teaching Fairy Tales
Pedagogical models and methodologies for engaging with fairy tales in the classroom. Teaching Fairy Tales edited by Nancy L. Canepa brings together scholars who have contributed to the field of fairy …
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€24.40
Sibelan Forrester: Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure. She appears in traditional Russian folktales as a monstrous and hungry cannibal, or as a canny inquisitor of the adolescent hero or heroine of the ta …
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€38.25
Jack Zipes: Brothers Grimm
Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantic …
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€32.47
Jack Zipes: Brothers Grimm
Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantic …
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€32.32
Alexandre Dumas & E. T. A. Hoffmann: Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker
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€9.45
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new sc …
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€3.49
Jack Zipes: Buried Treasures
Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales Jack Zipes has spent decades as a “scholarly scavenger, ” discovering forgotten fairy tales in lib …
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€36.99
Jack Zipes: Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Once upon a time Once upon a time there was a book, and inside the book were princes who had been turned into frogs or ferocious beasts, princesses so beautiful they astonished the sun, faithful swee …
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€8.99
Jack Zipes: Green Magic
With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green …
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€64.23
Jack Zipes: Green Magic
With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green …
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€64.20
Jack Zipes: Silver Magic
With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green …
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€64.33
Jack Zipes: Silver Magic
With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green …
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€63.79
Jack Zipes: Red Magic
With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Mag …
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€63.74
Jack Zipes: Red Magic
With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Mag …
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€64.20
Jack Zipes: Operated Jew and The Operated Goy
Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Fried …
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€64.19
Jack Zipes: Operated Jew and The Operated Goy
Originally published in English in 1991 and now reissued with a new Preface by Jack Zipes, this book presents and examines the work of two little-known writers, Oskar Panizza and Mynona (Salomo Fried …
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€64.19
Jack Zipes: Os Contos de Fada e a Arte da Subversão
Os contos de fada tem sido uma das influências culturais e sociais mais importantes na vida das crianças ao longo dos últimos séculos. Mas até este Os Contos de Fadas e a Arte da Subversão: O Gênero …
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€12.99
George Aichele & Tina Pippin: Violence, Utopia and the Kingdom of God
This controversial book explores the presence of the fantastic in Biblical and related texts, and the influence of Biblical traditions on contemporary fantasy writing, cinema, music and art. The cont …
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€48.79
George Aichele & Tina Pippin: Violence, Utopia and the Kingdom of God
This controversial book explores the presence of the fantastic in Biblical and related texts, and the influence of Biblical traditions on contemporary fantasy writing, cinema, music and art. The cont …
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€48.54
