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

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Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

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

814 pages • hardcover • first pub 1991 • 3 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...