Full name: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Author: Marina Warner Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374524876 0374524874

In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge in romancing? Similar books: Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion by Jack Zipes Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland Spinning Straw into Gold by Joan Gould Mirror, Mirror on the Wall by Kate Bernheimer Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga