The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm

Overview:

  • Title: The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm
  • Author: Jack Zipes
  • Year: 2001
  • ISBN-10: 039397636X
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Pages: xiv+992
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Princess Zeineb and King Leopard
  • Notes: All translations are by the editor. Those previously published by Zipes were slightly revised for this anthology. Illustrations are from the following works: -Basile's The Pentamerone; or, The Story of Stories (1893), tr. by John Edward Taylor & illus. by George Cruikshank -Leprince de Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast (1875), illus. by Walter Crane -Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1911), tr. by Mrs. Edgar Lucas & illus. by Arthur Rackham -Grimms' Fairy Tales (1911), illus. by Charles Folkard -Les contes de Perrault (1890), illustrator unknown -The Facetious Nights of Straparola (1894), tr. by Wiiliam G. Waters & illus. by Jules Garnier and E.R. Hughes 17 of the French tales (including all by Perrault) were previously published in Zipes' anthology Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales (1989)