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9780395082539 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1965, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A lengthy essay on the nature and literary value of the fairy story is accompanied by a tale illustrating these points
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9780882141015 | Spring Pubns, June 1, 1970, cover price $12.50
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9780804425650 | Ungar Pub Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: This first paperback edition of the seminal work by the Swiss scholar Max Lüthi will be welcomed by folklorists for its informative survey of the various ways in which fairytales and related genres (local legends and saints' lives) may be read.
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9780253202031, titled "Once upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales" | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 1976, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Studies the meaning, structure, symbolism and multiple forms of such familiar tales as Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and the Riddle Princess.
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9780882141053 | Spring Pubns, June 1, 1973, cover price $15.00
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9780398028510 | 2 edition (Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, June 1, 1974), cover price $49.25
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9780877739746 | Revised edition (Shambhala Pubns, March 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning.
9780882141091 | Spring Pubns, September 1, 1974, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning.
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9780878780167 | Sabian Pub Society, November 1, 1978, cover price $15.00
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An internationally known folklorist interweaves legends and stories about fairies with a discussion of the origins of fairy beliefs, kinds of fairies, and fairy powers, sports, and mortality in addition to indexing types of tales and motifs
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9780394502489 | Pantheon Books, November 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An internationally known folklorist interweaves legends and stories about fairies with a discussion of the origins of fairy beliefs, kinds of fairies, and fairy powers, sports, and mortality in addition to indexing types of tales and motifs
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9780292707252 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The evolution of the fairy tale from the folk tale and their fascination for the modern reader are examined
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9780813190303 | 2 rev exp edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 5, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world.
9780415907194 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 1, 1993), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This text explores, in both historical and critical contexts, the evolution of folk tales and fairy tales, their influence on popular beliefs, the politics behind them and their incorporation in mass media culture today.
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9780816420162, titled "The Woman's Tale: A Journal of Inner Exploration" | Seabury Pr, April 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A spiritual, emotional, and intellectual dialogue between the authors invites the reader to participate and explores what it means to be a woman
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9780192115591 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 24, 1974), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Unique reproductions of twenty-four popular fairy tales use the original texts from the earliest surviving versions, providing a scholarly introduction and annotations to each selection
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9780195202199 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 13, 1980, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Presents the texts of 24 well-known fairy tales as they were first presented in English and summarizes the history of each tale, especially from the textual point of view.
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9780919123014 | Inner City Books, December 1, 1980, cover price $25.00
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9783261048837 | Herbert Lang Et Co Ag, June 1, 1981, cover price $14.95
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9780415976695 | 2 edition (Routledge, May 1, 2006), cover price $131.00 | About this edition: The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives.
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9780415976701 | 2 edition (Routledge, May 1, 2006), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives.
9780415905138 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 1, 1988), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of fairy tales, shows how they were changed to support moral public values, and discusses the work of Perrault, the Grimm Brothers, Andersen, and Baum
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9780880101929 | Rudolf Steiner Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The fairy tale with its archetypal images lives on through all the changes and upheavals of society.
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9780863152085 | Floris Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The fairy tale with its archetypal images lives on through all the changes and upheavals of society.
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9781403960658 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, December 6, 2002), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm.
9780415900812 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm.
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9780415902090 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 1, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Who were the Brothers Grimm?
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9780395502327 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1989), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A lengthy essay on the nature and literary value of the fairy story is accompanied by a tale illustrating these points and a poem dealing with myths
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9780820409801 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 1, 1990, cover price $67.95
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9780877735250 | Revised edition (Shambhala Pubns, February 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examines the symbolism of the bird motif in six European and Asian fairy tales, and discusses the use of fairy tales as guidance for therapy
9781570626135 | Revised edition (Random House Inc, December 1, 1990), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: With a text revised and corrected by the author, this definitive edition of Individuation in Fairy Tales is rich with insights from religion, literature, and myth.
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Product Description: This volume continues Heinrich Zimmer's ideas in "The King and the Corpse", in which Zimmer takes the position that the ancient symbolic tales and scripts cannot be pinned to a particular theory, as they are in Bettelheim's Freudian approach or in Marie von Franz's Jungian analysis...read more
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9780889464988 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: This volume continues Heinrich Zimmer's ideas in "The King and the Corpse", in which Zimmer takes the position that the ancient symbolic tales and scripts cannot be pinned to a particular theory, as they are in Bettelheim's Freudian approach or in Marie von Franz's Jungian analysis.
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9780252017414 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $29.95
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Product Description: "Peter Tokofsky has provided English readers with a superb translation of one of the most important books on folktales." -- Wolfgang MiederThis classic work, first published in 1956, is now available in English...read more
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9780253350282 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: "Peter Tokofsky has provided English readers with a superb translation of one of the most important books on folktales.
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9780824071004 | Reprint edition (Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1992), cover price $80.00
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9780813109398 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 6, 1997), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: " Whether called "the good people," "the little people," or simply "them," fairies are familiar from their appearances in Shakespeare's plays, Disney's films, and points in between.
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9780791408537 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $64.50
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9780791408544, titled "Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World" | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $29.95
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9780877736134 | Shambhala Pubns, May 1, 1992, cover price $15.00
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