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Beauty and the Beast Classic Tales about Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World by Maria Tatar
Category: Classic Fiction
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 Thompson Nearly every culture te ...Show more
Fairest of Them All: Snow White ... by TATAR MARIA
Category: Classic Fiction
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 refas ...Show more
THE ANNOTATED HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN by EDITED BY MARIA TATAR
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Brothers Brothers Grimm; A. S. Byatt (Foreword by); Maria Tatar (Editor)
Category: Children's
The Annotated Brothers Grimm celebrates the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables in the most spectacular and unusual Grimm volume in decades. Containing forty stories in new translations by Maria Tatar--including "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Rapunzel"--the bo ...Show more
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales by Edited by Maria Tatar
Category: Classics | Series: Annotated Ser.
This beautiful volume celebrates the best-loved stories of childhood through the vision of Maria Tatar, a leading expert in the field of folklore and children's literature. Challenging the notion that fairy tales can be read for their morals and used to make model citizens of little children, Tatar guid ...Show more
The Annotated Hans Christian Anderson by Hans Christian Andersen; Maria Tatar; Julie K. Allen
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Little Mermaid" is just one jewel in this enchanting collection of 20 stories by the father of the modern fairy tale, Hans Christian Andersen. Includes a gold-tone mermaid charm. Illustrations. Consumable.
The Annotated Peter Pan: Centennial Edition by J. M. Barrie; Maria Tatar (Editor)
Category: Children's | Series: The\Annotated Bks.
"Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age."--Mark Twain One hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults and children ...Show more
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar (ed.)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable. This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by M ...Show more
The Fairest of Them All - Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters by Maria Tatar
Category: Fiction
"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 Wicked The story of the rivalry between a beautiful, innocent girl and her cruel and jealous ...Show more
The Fairies Return by Maria Tatar
Category: Fiction | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
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 timeless tales - from "Puss in Boots" to "Little Red Ridin ...Show more
The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Maria Tatar
Category: Fiction
Here are forty stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by Maria Tatar. Even after two hundred years, their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, in all their simplicity, have the power to change us. Tatar's preface provides readers with the contex ...Show more