Product Description

Gathering together 44 tales from around the world, from the 5th century on, this critical edition examines the genre, its cultural implications and its critical history. She has focused on six different tale types, and includes multicultural variants and literary rescriptings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42798 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Fantastic resource on folk and fairy tales.
I found this book immensely useful- the first half starts by giving breif critical reviews of several of the most common fary tale types (cinderella/catskin, snow white, bluebeard, hansel and gretel, and so on) and examples of that story type from various sources.

The second half has a number of core readings from the most influential critics on fairy tales- and these are fantastic- Zipes, Bettelheim, Warner, Propp, and a basic description of the Aarne-Thompson classification system.

Overall this book gives a good basis in the critical aspects of fairy tales, and of all the books I have read in this area, this book is probably the most approachable.

The book does not go into great depth on any one particular area of this genre, but it provides a solid foundation overall.

The Classic Fairy Tales Maria Tatar
I bought this book for my University course. It includes criticism as well as the texts. Another useful part of the book is that is gives variants of these tales, for example, "Little Red Riding Hood" and the varaints "Little Red Cap" as well as poems on this by Roald Dahl.

Great book if writing essays on Fairy Tales.