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The Fairies Return by Maria Tatar
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.26Originally 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... -
The Fairest of Them All by Maria Tatar
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £14.15"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,... -
Heroes & Heroines Myths & Tales by Maria Tatar
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82Our worldwide storytelling heritage is vast and varied and yet contains common threads, themes and motifs running throughout the many legends, whether they hail from the dusty plains of Africa or the... -
The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm Maria Tatar (Harvard University) 9780393338560
SciFier: £19.11Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm remain among our most powerful stories. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales,... -
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World Maria Tatar 9780143111696
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.74Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations. Nearly every culture tells the story in one fashion or another - such... -
The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University)
SciFier: £37.27The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionises the canon like no other volume. Henry Louis Gates Jr and Maria Tatar assemble a ground-breaking collection of folktales, myths and legends... -
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny... -
The Turnip Princess by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.19A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen... -
The Queen's Mirror by Shawn C. Jarvis
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £25.68This exciting and comprehensive anthology-the first anthology of German women's fairy tales in English-presents a variety of published and archival fairy tales from 1780 to 1900. These authors of... -
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales: Classic Tales Hans Christian Andersen 9781839641657
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82The author Hans Christian Andersen is regarded as a national treasure by his homeland Denmark, but his popularity extends far beyond his native shores. As one of the most translated authors in the... -
PETER PAN: An Illuminated Edition by J.M. Barrie
RRP: £70.99SciFier: £49.38The beloved classic fantasy adventure PETER PAN (originally published in 1911 as PETER AND WENDY), has been adapted countless times for film, stage, and spin-offs -- but it's never been seen as... -
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 9780199645602
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.00The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting... -
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Bard College)
SciFier: £25.84In this dazzling, illustrated edition of the instant classic that has sold more than a million copies, award-winning illustrator Levi Pinfold brings Neil Gaiman's bravura rendition of the Norse gods... -
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales Jack Zipes 9780691172651
SciFier: £29.89A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer's apprentice tale throughout history "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney... -
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales by Professor of Chinese Studies Juwen Zhang
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £15.12A delightful collection of modern Chinese talesThe Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These... -
The Penguin Book of Mermaids Cristina Bacchilega 9780143133728
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £11.31A unique anthology of mermaid tales from around the world, many of which have never appeared in English beforeAmong the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have... -
Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth Brian Attebery (Professor of English, Professor of English, Idaho State University) 9780199316076
SciFier: £50.16Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines... -
Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones by Nancy L. Canepa
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £35.99The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid... -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers Sarah Iles Johnston 9780691239873
SciFier: £17.43An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency... -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers Sarah Iles Johnston 9780691199207
RRP: £37.00SciFier: £22.19An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency... -
Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination William Cheng (Postdoctoral fellow, Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) 9780199969975
SciFier: £41.68Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and... -
Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman 9780393356182
SciFier: £8.99Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their... -
The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjornsen 9781517921040
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £19.46The definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture-now in paperback The extraordinary folktales collected by Peter... -
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... -
How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £8.59Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer's latest collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the familiar cedes to the grotesque and nonsense just as often devolves into terror. These...