Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture by Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, August Strindberg, Jack D. Zipes, Philip K. Dick, E.T.A. Hoffmann, W.B. Yeats, Jacob Grimm, Oscar Wilde, Theodor Storm, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Thurber, Michael de Larrabeiti, Mark Twain, Robert Coover, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Robin McKinley, Charles Perrault, William Hawthorne, Tanith Lee, Hermann Hesse, Stanisław Lem, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anatole France, Wilhelm Grimm, Italo Calvino

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Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, August Strindberg, Jack D. Zipes, Philip K. Dick, E.T.A. Hoffmann, W.B. Yeats, Jacob Grimm, Oscar Wilde, Theodor Storm, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Thurber, Michael de Larrabeiti, Mark Twain, Robert Coover, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Robin McKinley, Charles Perrault, William Hawthorne, Tanith Lee, Hermann Hesse, Stanisław Lem, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anatole France, Wilhelm Grimm, Italo Calvino

848 pages • 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...