More Than True

More Than True

Author: Robert Bly

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1250158206

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National Book Award-winning poet and author of the internationally best-selling Iron John, Robert Bly revisits a selection of fairy tales and examines how these enduring narratives capture the essence of human nature. Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from, and what do they mean? Celebrated poet and bestselling author Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career. Here Bly looks at six tales that have stood the test of time and have captivated the poet for decades, from “The Six Swans” to “The Frog Prince.” Drawing on his own creative genius, and the work of a range of thinkers from Kirkegaard and Yeats to Freud and Jung, Bly turns these stories over in his mind to bring new meaning and illumination to these timeless tales. Along with illustrations of each story, the book features some of Bly's unpublished poetry, which peppers his lyric prose and offers a look inside the mind of an American master of letters in the twilight of his singular career.


The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

Author: Alison Lurie

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 9780192803832

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This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.


Gender Swapped Fairy Tales

Gender Swapped Fairy Tales

Author: Karrie Fransman

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0571360203

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Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow outside. People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change.. They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders. It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.


English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales

Author: Donald Haase Ph.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-06-19

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1576074277

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The first compilation of the full first-edition texts of the classic fairy tale collections by Joseph Jacobs, with Jacobs' original prefaces and annotations. In these two classic collections, first published in 1890 and 1894, Joseph Jacobs combined folklore, children's literature, and the eclectic scholarship of the Victorian era to create a storehouse of tales that inhabited the imaginations of children and adults for generations. Here readers first met Tom Tit Tot, Molly Whuppie, and Jack the Giant-Killer, and first read the stories of the Three Little Pigs, the Three Bears, and Henny-Penny. Jacobs' daring collections challenged conventional thinking about the meaning of "folk," the individual artistry behind folktales, and the boundaries between folklore and literature, anticipating modern developments in folklore studies. His original editions of these 87 classic tales, along with the original illustrations, are reprinted in this new volume, offering readers an unsurpassed understanding of the development of the classic fairy tale in late Victorian England.


More Than Just Fairy Tales

More Than Just Fairy Tales

Author: Julie K. Allen

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781626610187

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"First published in the United States of America in 2014 by Cognella Inc.." --verso page


Two-minute Fairy Tales

Two-minute Fairy Tales

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780307121820

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A collection of well-known fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, the Three bears, Hansel and Gretel and many more.


Notes from an Alien

Notes from an Alien

Author: Sena Quaren

Publisher: Fastpencil Incorporated

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9781607468226

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Told from the perspective of Sena Quaren, a woman from another star system, this is a story about unifying three very different worlds to create one lasting peace.


The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Author: Jacob Grimm

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789387779693

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Once upon a time in a fairy tale world, There were magical mirrors and golden slippers;Castles and fields and mountains of glass,Houses of bread and windows of sugar.Frogs transformed into handsome Princes,And big bad wolves into innocent grandmothers.There were evil queens and wicked stepmothers;Sweethearts, true brides, and secret lovers. In the same fairy world, A poor boy has found a golden key and an iron chest, and " We must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid . . ." A classic collection of timeless folk tales by Grimm Brothers, Grimm' s Fairy Tales are not only enchanting, mysterious, and amusing, but also frightening and intriguing. Delighting children and adults alike, these tales have undergone several adaptations over the decades. This edition with black-and-white illustrations is a translation by Margaret Hunt.


Fairy Tales and Fables

Fairy Tales and Fables

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Publisher: Union Square Kids

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781402756986

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An illustrated anthology of well-known fairy tales and Aesop's fables.


The Tall Book of Fairy Tales

The Tall Book of Fairy Tales

Author: Eleanor Graham Vance

Publisher: Harperfestival

Published: 1992-03-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780060255459

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Presents sixteen classic fairy tales, including "Puss in Boots," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Cinderella."