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Tales of Wonder by Jack Zipes
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £26.04The most familiar fairy tales call to mind certain images: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. Yet these visions often merely reflect... -
Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment by JACK ZIPES
SciFier: £38.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861713193Author JACK ZIPESFormat HardbackPage Count 610Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher... -
The Wrath of Peace or How the Wellikans Saved the World Jack Zipes 9798895432884
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798895432884Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher... -
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales Jack Zipes 9780814347867
RRP: £83.00SciFier: £69.49Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that,... -
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales Jack Zipes 9780814347850
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £21.01Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that,... -
Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales Jack Zipes 9781861715494
SciFier: £24.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861715494Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher... -
Home is Not Sweet or How the Wellikans and the Twins Found Truth Jack Zipes 9798897891009
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £6.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897891009Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher... -
Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales Jack Zipes 9781861717474
SciFier: £21.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861717474Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher... -
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition by Jack Zipes
RRP: £21.00SciFier: £18.04Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382167Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House... -
Lost and Found or How the Wellikans Helped the Twins Avoid a Catastrophe Jack Zipes 9798897891023
SciFier: £8.09Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897891023Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher... -
Never-Ending Tales: Stories from the Golden Age of Jewish Literature Jack Zipes 9780691263779
SciFier: £25.07An anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hopeBetween the late nineteenth and... -
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm by Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota)
SciFier: £24.89The tales-116 in all-are thematically grouped. Each grouping is introduced and annotated by Jack Zipes, the genre's reigning expert. Twenty illustrations accompany the texts. "Criticism" includes... -
Grimm's Fairy Tales The Brothers Grimm 9781529505498
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £13.61A beautifully illustrated and enchanting collection of treasured fairy tales from the extraordinarily talented author-illustrator Sandra Dieckmann. Enchanted forests, wild animals, powerful... -
Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 9780142437063
SciFier: £8.63This well-known fairy tale follows the adventures of a mischievous puppet without strings, Pinocchio. Pinocchio is at once a tragicomic character, and a poor, illiterate peasant boy who has few... -
Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump by Pyotr Yershov
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.23A classic Russian tale retold for our time by an eminent folklorist "Many years ago in the great empire of Russia where wicked winds and cruel storms tormented the lives of poor peasants . . ." So... -
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition Gretchen Schultz 9780691191416
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.59A new collection of subversive French fairy talesThe wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live... -
Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men by Edouard Laboulaye
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.65Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current timesEdouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), one of nineteenth-century France's most prominent politicians and an... -
Told Again: Old Tales Told Again Walter de la Mare 9780691196299
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.59An enchanting retelling of nineteen fairy tales, introduced by popular fantasy writer Philip PullmanOriginally published in 1927, Told Again is an enchanting collection of elegant fairy tales,... -
Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.39Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that... -
Told Again: Old Tales Told Again - Updated Edition Walter de la Mare 9780691159218
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £19.14Originally published in 1927, Told Again is an enchanting collection of elegant fairy tales, showcasing the formidable talents of a writer who used magical realism before the term had even been... -
The Island of Happiness: Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy Natalie Frank 9780691180243
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £31.19An enchanting selection of Madame d'Aulnoy's seventeenth-century French fairy tales, interpreted by contemporary visual artist Natalie FrankMarie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville (1650-1705), also... -
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition Gretchen Schultz 9780691161655
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £23.39The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry,... -
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.59An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales Bela Balazs 9780691147116
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
The Original Bambi by Felix Salten
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten's celebrated novel Bambi-the original source of the beloved story Most of us think we know the story of Bambi-but do we? The Original Bambi... -
Enchanted Eloquence - Fairy Tales by Seventeenth Century French Women Writers by Lewis C. Seifert
SciFier: £40.98This is a superb book on all levels. The translations of the tales are excellent. The research is impeccable. The introduction and notes are highly informative. Most important, Lewis Seifert and... -
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia Zur Muhlen
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.12A collection of radical political fairy tales-some in English for the first time-from one of the great female practitioners of the genreHermynia Zur Muhlen (1883-1951), one of the twentieth century's... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales Bela Balazs 9780691162331
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.59A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
SciFier: £10.49E. T. A. Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816)" is a fairy tale of a young girl's magical dream, filled with stories with dark undertone. In 1844, Dumas adapted the tale as a children's... -
The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann E. T. A. Hoffmann 9780300263190
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £26.04E. T. A. Hoffmann's classic tales of Gothic horror and fantasy are presented in a new translation accompanying the beguiling drawings of Natalie Frank "Sumptuous. . . . [Natalie Frank's] artwork . ... -
Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens J. M. Barrie 9780142437933
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.66J.M. Barrie's timeless tale of the 'boy who would not grow up' Peter Pan is edited with an introduction by Jack Zipes in Penguin Classics.When Peter Pan and his fairy companion Tinker Bell fly in... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition Jacob Grimm 9780691160597
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £27.63When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition Jacob Grimm 9780691173221
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.39When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and... -
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82Malevolent and dark, the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm are not for the faint-hearted. The stories were originally published in 1812 and form a vivid and fascinating body of work that is... -
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults Carrie Hintz 9780415803649
SciFier: £46.33This volume examines a variety of utopian writing for children from the 18th century to the present day, defining and exploring this new genre in the field of children's literature. The original... -
From Mouse to Mermaid by Elizabeth Bell
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.01From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney... -
The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum
SciFier: £14.74This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense and loyal following. The Wizard of Oz (1900) introduces... -
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.94A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the... -
Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination Tom Moylan 9780415966146
SciFier: £38.53First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the... -
The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.44Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of...