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Cloak of Dreams Chinese Fairy Tales by Balazs Bela Zipes Jack Lydes Mariette
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Fairy Tales & the Art of Subversion by Jack Zipes
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
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 had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in ...Show more
Little Red Riding Hood and Other Classic French Fairy Tales by ZIPES JACK
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
'Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth'. Arranged marriages, trials to win the princess, children lost in the woods, the transformation of humans into beasts, charms and curses, evil stepsisters, tests of love and courage - these are the motifs that to ...Show more
Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Jack Zipes; Andrea Dezsö
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majo ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm; Jack Zipes (Introduction by, Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACK ZIPES. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a m ...Show more
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales by Juwen Zhang (Editor, Edited and Translated by); Jack Zipes (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
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 stories have been carefully selected from more than a thousand originally published in the early twen ...Show more
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes
$38.95 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The tales-116 in all-are thematically grouped. Each grouping is introduced and annotated by Jack Zipes, the genre's reigning expert. Twenty illustrations accompany the texts. "Criticism" includes seven important assessments of different aspects of the fairy tale tradition, written by W. G. Waters, Bened ...Show more
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes
$31.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread - or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what fo ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Oxford Companions
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 authoritative reference source for this complex and captivating genre, exploring the tales themselves, the writers w ...Show more
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