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When dreams came true : classical fairy tales and their tradition

Jack Zipes
Explains the social life of the fairy tale from the sixteenth century into the twentieth - Shows how authors used the genre to articulate personal desires and political views - Demonstrates the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing process - Arabian nights - Brothers Grimm - Hans Christian Andersen - Pinocchio - L. Frank Baum_____________

Print Book, English, 1999
Routledge, New York, 1999