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  • The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmPerhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Arabian Nights, Volume I

    The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Arabian Nights
    Enjoy the timeless tales of Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more in this first volume of The Arabian Nights.Upon learning of his queen’s infidelity, proud King Shahryar has her killed. As revenge on womankind, he decides to wed a different virgin every night, only to have her beheaded at dawn. Such is Shahryar’s practice for three terrible years—until he weds Scheherazade ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Home is Not Sweet or How the Wellikans and the Twins Found Truth

    by Jack Zipes ...
    In the course of this novella, Nexus keeps transforming himself and becomes more brutal. Neither the Twins nor the Wellikans are killers, and they must somehow find a way to end the ruthless activities of the dictator Nexus. Fortunately, they manage to find the most appropriate punishment for all the crimes that Nexus has committed. It is not clear where the Twins and the Wellikans are at the end ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aesop's Fables

    by Aesop, Jack Zipes ...
    This exclusive Signet Classic edition contains 203 of Aesop’s most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with classic woodcuts by the great French artist J. J. Grandville.It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Grimm Legacies

    The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale.Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

    by Oscar Wilde, Jack Zipes ...
    The master of wit and ironyPublished here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Lost and Found or How the Wellikans Helped the Twins Avoid a Catastrophe

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The twin witches, Anja and Zack, are left stunned when they discover that Nexus, the sinister dictator, has escaped death and been reborn as an even more dangerous monster bent on world domination. Together with their allies, the Wellikans, the twins embark on a series of adventures, standing in Nexus's way at every turn. Yet each victory comes at a cost, and it is far from certain that they can ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    An Anthology of Magical Tales

    Edited by Jack Zipes ...
    A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales—in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Clark Lectures
    " Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Don't Bet on the Prince

    Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fairy tales and essays to appear since the women's movement gained momentum in the 1960's. He has selected works by such gifted writers as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Tanith Lee, Jay Williams, Jane Yolen, Anne Sexton, Olga Broumas and Joanna Russ-all of whom, whether they consider themselves feminists or not, have ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until 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 order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy ... Read more

    $57.99 USD