Overview
- Presents a fascinating and accessible collection edited and translated by the world's leading expert on fairy tales
- Updates the previous edition with a revised introduction, 3 new tales and over 50 new illustrations
- Includes translations of work by a range of noted Weimar writers including Kurt Schwitters
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Introduction
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Learning from Mistakes
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Kings, Tyrants, Misers and Other Fools
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Reviews
“Zipes’s collection is a marvellous book, one which will appeal to both the general reader and those working on fairy tales or those researching the Weimar Republic or German intellectual life before the outbreak of the Second World War.” (Paul Quinn, Gramarye, Issue 17, 2020)
“This collection of thirty literary stories in the genre of fairy tales, assembled and translated by Jack Zipes, offers a good read to anyone who enjoys stories. … This collection of stories is enjoyable also because of the smooth translations. … The tales collected and presented in this volume are important for scholars of literature as well as of folktales, fairy tales, and fables. The volume is also meant for the simple pleasure of reading inspiring stories” (Sadhana Naithani, Journal of Folklore Research, April, 2019)
“Its creative wave of tales, some playful, some ironic, some wrenchingly utopian, speaks directly to the world we find ourselves in today.” (Jo Radner, Storytelling Magazine, 2018)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days
Book Subtitle: Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition
Editors: Jack Zipes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69275-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69274-6Published: 26 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69275-3Published: 15 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 250
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Literature, Children's Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, European Literature, History of Germany and Central Europe