The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

Alison Lurie, Donald Barthelme, Lord Dunsany, Carl Sandburg, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Howard Pyle, Mary De Morgan, Walter de la Mare, Tanith Lee, Frank R. Stockton, Jay Williams, T.H. White, Lucy Lane Clifford, Richard Hughes, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Joan Aiken, Oscar Wilde, James Thurber, Angela Carter, Laurence Housman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jeanne Desy, Catherine Sinclair, John Collier, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kenneth Grahame, Philip K. Dick, Jane Yolen, E. Nesbit, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Ruskin, L. Frank Baum, Louise Erdrich, Richard Kennedy, Naomi Mitchison, Frances Browne, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer, H.G. Wells


4.00 · 8 ratings · Published: 03 Jul 1993

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales by Alison Lurie, Donald Barthelme, Lord Dunsany, Carl Sandburg, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Howard Pyle, Mary De Morgan, Walter de la Mare, Tanith Lee, Frank R. Stockton, Jay Williams, T.H. White, Lucy Lane Clifford, Richard Hughes, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Joan Aiken, Oscar Wilde, James Thurber, Angela Carter, Laurence Housman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jeanne Desy, Catherine Sinclair, John Collier, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kenneth Grahame, Philip K. Dick, Jane Yolen, E. Nesbit, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Ruskin, L. Frank Baum, Louise Erdrich, Richard Kennedy, Naomi Mitchison, Frances Browne, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer, H.G. Wells
The stories of magic and transformation that we call fairy tales are one of the oldest known forms of literature, and also one of the most popular and enduring. While most people think of the fairy tale as having come into existence almost magically long ago, they are in fact still being created. And while they are principally directed to children and have child protagonists, these modern fairy tales, like the classics, have messages to those of all ages. In The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, editor Alison Lurie collects such modern stories of the late nineteenth century up to the present. Here are trolls and princesses, magic and mayhem, morals to be told and lessons to be learned--all the elements of the classic fairy tale, in new and marvelous stories. Including the works of Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George MacDonald, Mary De Morgan, H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joan Aiken, Carl Sandburg, Angela Carter, James Thurber, Louise Erdrich, and many more, here is a treasury of tales that, though set in an unreal and irrelevant universe, have much to tell us about the real world in which we live.

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