Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture by Jack D. Zipes

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Jack D. Zipes with Carl Ewald, Gottfried Keller, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary De Morgan, Giambattista Basile, Alfred Döblin, Apuleius, Rosemarie Künzler-Behncke, Michel Tournier, Jane Yolen, Howard Pyle, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Voltaire, Thomas Crofton Croker, Charles Perrault, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force, Italo Calvino, August Strindberg, Angela Carter, Guillaume Apollinaire, Janosch, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Günter Kunert, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Naomi Mitchison, Johann Karl August Musäus, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Laurence Housman, Philip K. Dick, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon, Theodor Storm, Kurt Schwitters, Antoine Galland, Erich Kästner, Robin McKinley, Ingeborg Bachmann, Tanith Lee, Stanisław Lem, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georg Kaiser, Christoph Martin Wieland, Michael de Larrabeiti, Robert Coover, Henri Pourrat, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Franz Hessel, Christoph Meckel, Anatole France

814 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction fantasy short stories informative slow-paced
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"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 movem...

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