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Title: The Classic Fairy Tales by Iona Archivald Opie, Peter Opie ISBN: 0-19-520219-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An invaluable reference
Comment: Everything the Opies write is fascinating and approachable, and this book is a revelation. All these tales, familiar and no-longer-so-familiar, are great to read in this age of sanitised, bowdlerised, or Disneyfied folktales. But the historical details of how the stories evolved, what and from where the variants are, and the significance of various elements of the stories - all these are of great general interest, and are also invaluable to the storyteller needing to do a bit of research.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fairy tales as they were first printed in the English lang.
Comment: I first read this book in 1983, and was amazed with it then. It's unique and extremely interesting. Iona and Peter Opie have the original tales as first printed in the English language. Added to that is the history and the actual gruesome origins of what we now consider children's stories! For example, Sleeping Beauty is not awakened by a kiss. Her Prince Charming violates her while she sleeps (and since she doesn't wake up, we can only imagine how mediocre he was...). She only awakens 9 months later, during the birth of twins! He eventually returns to her, and then the story gets more complicated with his ogre mother who wants to canibalize the children. The story of the Frog Prince is even stranger. Since these are the actual tales, we can see how we've changed the stories to fit in with our culture. This is not a book for young children. The history part was the most fascinating to me. In addition, litle details such as learning that Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of squirrel fur, not glass. Both words in French are spelled similarly (vaire, verre...I'm not sure of the spelling either)and the original printer had a typo that lives on til today.
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford Dictionary Nursery Rhymes, 2nd ed) by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie ISBN: 0198600887 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: The Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Maria M. Tatar ISBN: 0393972771 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
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Title: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor ISBN: 014034893X Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Holes (Yearling Newbery) by LOUIS SACHAR ISBN: 0440414806 Publisher: Yearling Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 |
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Title: The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton ISBN: 0689717210 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 31 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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