Maria Tatar

• Apr-2020
• / Fantasy

“With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting.” -- Gregory Maguire, author of WickedThe story of the rivalry betwe...

• Mar-2017
• / Fantasy

Nearly every culture tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in one fashion or another. From Cupid and Psyche to India s Snake Bride to South Africa s Story of Five Heads, the partnering of beasts and beauties, of humans and animals in all their vari...

• Sep-2012
• / Fantasy

Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been surpassed. Even today, this reimagining of fourteen tim...

• May-2003
• / Fantasy

Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edi...

• Nov-1999
• / Fantasy

I have used this textbook for four courses on children's literature with enrollments of over ninety students. It is without doubt the most well organized selection of literary fairy tales and critical commentaries currently available. Students love i...

• Oct-1993
• / Fantasy

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 the...