Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

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Spells of Enchantment brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, arranged to provide a sense of the history and evolution of this ancient genre. Focusing on the work of the most gifted writers of the great Western literary movements from classical times to the present. Jack Zipes's collection shows how some of literature's most creative minds have tried their hand at mixing the magic ingredients of the fairy tale--and how the genre has been marvelously transformed according to each writer's particular genius.

Including more than sixty tales by such master practitioners of the art as Perrault, Voltaire, Goethe, Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Wilde, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Calvino, Philip K. Dick, Robert Coover, and Angela Carter, this authoritative, original, and unique volume is sure to bewitch readers of all ages.

The Smile of the Sphinx • • short story by Ingeborg Bachmann
When the Clock Strikes • • short story by Tanith Lee
The Fisherman and His Soul • • novelette by Oscar Wilde
Cinderella Continued, or the Rat and the Six Lizards • • short story by Guillaume Apollinaire
Cupid and Psyche • [Cupid and Psyche] • • short fiction by Apuleius [as by Lucius Apuleius]
The Merchant's Two Sons • • short story by Giambattista Basile
xi • Introduction • • essay by Jack Zipes
xxx • A Note on the Texts and the Acknowledgments • • essay by Jack Zipes
xxxiv • Cupid and Psyche • • interior artwork by Jean de Bosschère
28 • Of Feminine Subtlety • • short story by unknown
32 • The Pig Prince • • short story by Giovanni Francesco Straparola [as by Giovanni Straparola]
37 • Night the Second: The First Fable • • interior artwork by Edward Robert Hughes [as by E. R. Hughes]
45 • The Merchant • • interior artwork by Michael Ayrton
48 • Ricdin-Ricdon • • novelette by Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon [as by Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier]
85 • Riquet with the Tuft • • short story by Charles Perrault
88 • Riquet à la Hoppe • • interior artwork by unknown
91 • Green Serpent • • novelette by Comtesse d'Aulnoy [as by Marie-Cathérine d'Aulnoy]
96 • Green Serpent • • interior artwork by Gordon Browne
115 • Parslinette • • short story by Charlotte Rose Caumont de la Force
122 • Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou • • novelette by Antoine Galland
157 • Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou • • interior artwork by unknown
160 • The Queen Fantasque • • short story by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
172 • The White Bull • • novelette by Voltaire
174 • The White Bull • • interior artwork by Henry Keen
199 • Libussa • • novella by Johann Karl August Musäus
200 • Libussa ? • • interior artwork by Ludwig Richter
233 • The Philosophers' Stone • • novelette by Christoph Martin Wieland
258 • The Fairy Tale • • novelette by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [as by Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
281 • Eckbert the Blond • • novelette by Ludwig Tieck
293 • Der Blonde Eckbert ? • • interior artwork by Frank Ruddigkeit
296 • A Wondrous Oriental Tale of a Naked Saint • • short story by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
300 • Hyacinth and Roseblossom • • short story by Novalis
304 • The Mines of Falun • • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann
312 • The Mines of Falun • • interior artwork by Hugo Steiner-Prag
325 • The Lady of Gollerus • • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
326 • The Lady of Gollerus • • interior artwork by Richard Hook
330 • Snow White and Rose Red • [KHM ? • 161] • • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm [as by Wilhelm Grimm]
333 • Snow-White and Rose-Red • • interior artwork by E. H. Wehnert
337 • Bluebeard's Ghost • • short story by William Makepeace Thackeray
357 • Feathertop • • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
373 • The Shadow • • short story by Hans Christian Andersen
376 • The Visit of the Shadow • • interior artwork by A. W. Bayes
383 • Spiegel the Cat • • novelette by Gottfried Keller
392 • Spiegel the Cat • • interior artwork by Joseph Low
410 • Hinzelmeier: A Thoughtful Story • • novelette by Theodor Storm
429 • The Day Boy and the Night Girl • • novelette by George MacDonald
459 • The Day Boy and the Night Girl • • interior artwork by Arthur Hughes
462 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • • short story by Frank R. Stockton
472 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • • interior artwork by Frederick Richardson
474 • The Three Clever Kings • • short story by Mary de Morgan
480 • The Three Clever Kings • • interior artwork by Walter Crane
483 • For I Have Seen Wonderful Things • • interior artwork by Charles Ricketts
509 • Where to Lay the Blame • • short story by Howard Pyle
512 • Where to Lay the Blame • • interior artwork by Howard Pyle
515 • The Tale of the 672nd Night • • short story by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
528 • A Chinese Fairy-Tale • • interior artwork by Clemence Housman
529 • A Chinese Fairy-Tale • • short story by Laurence Housman
536 • The Queen of Quok • • short story by L. Frank Baum
537 • The Queen of Quok • • interior artwork by Ike Morgan
544 • Dreams That Have No Moral • • short story by W. B. Yeats [as by William Butler Yeats]
552 • The Five Boons of Life • • short story by Mark Twain
555 • The Story of Jubal, Who Had No "I" • • short fiction by August Strindberg
561 • How Treason Came to Russia • • short story by Rainer Maria Rilke
564 • The Story of the Fairy Tale • • short story by Carl Ewald
566 • The Seven Wives of Bluebeard • • novelette by Anatole France
572 • The Seven Wives of Bluebeard • • interior artwork by L. A. Patterson
583 • The Vegetational Fatherhood • • short story by Mynona
588 • The Kith of the Elf-Folk • • short story by Lord Dunsany
600 • The Forest Dweller • • short story by Hermann Hesse
609 • The Three Wishes • • short story by Kurt Schwitters
613 • The Seventh Dwarf • • short story by Franz Hessel
615 • The Fairy Tale About Technology • • short story by Alfred Döblin?
618 • The Little Girl and the Wolf • • interior artwork by James Thurber
619 • The Girl and the Wolf • • short story by James Thurber
620 • The Fairy Tale of the King • • short story by Georg Kaiser
622 • The Fairy Tale About Common Sense • • short story by Erich Kästner?
628 • The Tale of the Singing Branch, the Bird of Truth, and the Water of Youth • • short story by Henri Pourrat
635 • The King of the Elves • • novelette by Philip K. Dick
652 • The Enchanted Palace • • short story by Italo Calvino
658 • Five Men and a Swan • • short story by Naomi Mitchison
672 • Bluebeard's Daughter • • novelette by Sylvia Townsend Warner
686 • The Crow • • short story by Christoph Meckel
692 • Prince Ferrix and the Princess Crystal • [Bajki robotów ] • • short story by Stanisław Lem? [as by Stanislaw Lem]
699 • O królewiczu Ferrycym i królewnie Krystalii • • interior artwork by Daniel Mróz?
701 • Sleeping Beauty • • short story by Günter Kunert?
702 • Hans My Hedgehog • • short story by Janosch
703 • Hans mein Igel • • interior artwork by Janosch
704 • The Dead Queen • • short story by Robert Coover
712 • The Lady and the Merman • • interior artwork by David Wiesner
713 • The Lady and the Merman • • short story by Jane Yolen
716 • Rumpelstiltskin • • short story by Rosemarie Künzler?
718 • Tom Thumb Runs Away: A Christmas Story • • short story by Michel Tournier
729 • The Tiger's Bride • • short story by Angela Carter
745 • The Princess and the Frog • • short story by Robin McKinley
772 • Pichounetta and the Sergeant of Arles • • short story by Michael de Larrabeiti