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  • The Grimm Reader

    The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    Edited by Maria Tatar ...
    Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore.Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm remain among our most powerful stories. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, in all their simplicity, have the power to change us. With some of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Once Upon A Fairytale

    Modern Retellings of Classic Fairytales

    by Patricia Danaher, Sophia van Valkenburg ...
    We never forget the stories we were told as children. Even when they aren't on the top of our mind, they lurk like palm prints on the drying cement foundations of our understanding of the world. We absorb the pluck of children in the face of adult perfidy, cheering the heroism of "Hansel and Gretel" or "Beauty and the Beast." Counterpoised by the wickedness and cruelty of parents, stepmothers, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arachnomania

    Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for Us

    by Maria Tatar ...
    In praise of spiders in all their inspirational glorySpiders are often found lurking in dusty corners, where we can observe them with interest or brush them away with disgust—or make a run for it, as the agitated Miss Muffet does. They are just as prevalent in our cultural landscapes, starring in horror films, inspiring works by famous artists and writers, and featured in myths and folktales. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

    by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth ...
    Translated by Maria Tatar ...
    **A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in EnglishMove over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the “Cinderfellas” in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head.**With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

    Edited by Maria Tatar ...
    The “tale as old as time,” in versions from across the centuries and around the world—published to coincide with Disney’s live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Audra McDonald, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Dan Stevens, and Emma ThompsonNearly every culture tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in one fashion or another. From Cupid and Psyche to India’s ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    by Maria Tatar ...
    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Lustmord

    Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany

    by Maria Tatar ...
    In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

    Edited by Maria Tatar ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature. As the simple expression of complex thought, fairy tales have increasingly become the focus of intense scholarly inquiry. In this Companion, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

    by Hans Christian Andersen, Maria Tatar ...
    Translated by Maria Tatar, Julie K. Allen ...
    Series series The Annotated Books
    A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars.In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen's most beloved tales, such as ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Enchanted Hunters

    The Power of Stories in Childhood

    by Maria Tatar ...
    Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read.Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Fairest of Them All

    Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters

    by Maria Tatar ...
    We think we know the story of Snow White from Disney and the Brothers Grimm. But acclaimed folklorist Maria Tatar reveals dazzling variations from across the globe.The story of the rivalry between a beautiful, innocent girl and her equally beautiful and cruel mother has been endlessly repeated and refashioned all over the world. In Switzerland you might hear about seven dwarfs who shelter a girl, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Off with Their Heads!

    Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

    by Maria Tatar ...
    When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch's gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their "uncontrolled cravings" and "destructive desires" or are they simply responding normally to the hunger pangs they feel after being abandoned by their parents? Challenging Bruno Bettelheim and other critics who read fairy tales as enactments of children's untamed urges, Maria Tatar argues that it ... Read more

    $35.99 USD