Table of Contents
Introduction xi
The Texts of The Classic Fairy Tales 1
Instructions Neil Gaiman 3
Introduction: Little Red Riding Hood 5
The Story of Grandmother 14
Little Red Riding Hood Charles Perrault 16
Little Red Cap Brothers Grimm 18
The False Grandmother Italo Calvino 21
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Roald Dahl 23
The Three Little Pigs Roald Dahl 24
The Tale of the Tiger Woman 26
Tsélané and the Marimo 28
Introduction: Beauty and the Beast 30
Beauty and the Beast Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont 39
The Pig King Giovan Francesco Straparola 50
The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich Brothers Grimm 55
The Tiger's Bride Angela Carter 58
Urashima the Fisherman 74
The Enchanted Frog 77
The Swan Maiden 79
Chonguita 80
The Dog Bride 82
Introduction: Snow White 84
The Young Slave Giambattista Basile 92
Snow White Brothers Grimm 95
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Anne Sexton 102
Snow, Glass, Apples Neil Gaiman 106
Introduction: Sleeping Beauty 117
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood Charles Perrault 123
Briar Rose Brothers Grimm 130
Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane Gabriel Garcia Márquez 133
The Sleeping Beauty Wilfred Owen 138
Introduction: Cinderella 139
Rhodopis 145
Veh-hsien
Cinderella 148
Cinderella 153
Donkeyskin Charles Perrault 154
The Three Gowns 162
Catskin Joseph Jacobs 166
The Story of the Black Cow 169
[Cinderella] Lin Lan 171
The Princess in the Suit of Leather 175
Introduction: Bluebeard 182
Bluebeard Charles Perrault 188
Pitcher's Bird Brothers Grimm 193
The Robber Bridegroom Brothers Grimm 196
Mr. Fox Joseph Jacobs 199
Mr. Bluebeard 201
The Forbidden Room 203
Mast-Truan 204
Bluebeard's Egg Margaret Atwood 205
Bluebeard Edna St. Vincent Millay 228
Introduction: Tricksters 229
Hansel and Grelel Brothers Grimm 236
Fulano de Tal and His Children 242
The Juniper Tree Brothers Grimm 245
The Rose-Tree Joseph Jacobs 252
The Singing Bones 254
Little Thumbling Charles Perrault 255
Vasilisa the Fair Alexander Afanasev 263
Momotaro, or the Peach Boy 270
Jack and the Beanstalk Joseph Jacobs 272
Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen 278
The Little Mermaid 283
The Little Match Girl 301
The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf 303
The Red Shoes 309
The Emperor's New Clothes 314
The Nightingale 318
Introduction: Oscar Wilde 326
The Selfish Giant 331
The Happy Prince 334
The Nightingale and the Rose 341
Criticism 347
The Fairy Tale Moves on Its Own in Time Ernst Bloch 349
From Better Castles in the Sky at the Country Fair and Circus, in Fairy Tales and Colportage 351
From The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov Walter Benjamin 356
Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose Robert Darnton 363
Abstract Style Max Lüthi 375
[Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother] Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar 387
From To Spin a Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Talc Karen E. Rowe 393
From The Old Wives' Tale Marina Warner 405
Breaking the Disney Spell Jack Zipes 414
From Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales Donald Haase 435
From Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales Maria Tatar 446
From Slipping the Trap of Appetite Lewis Hyde 456
From Female Tricksters as Double Agents Maria Tatar 459
From The Fairy-Tale Web Cristina Bacchilega 468
From Magical Illusion: Fairy-Talc Film Jessica Tiffin 481
From The Types of International Folktales Hans-Jörg Uther 491
From Folklore and Literature Vladimir Propp 498
From Morphology of the Folktale 502
Valediction Maria Tatar 508
Selected Bibliography 509
