A quick run through Western Culture and the first comprehensive anthology of 'literary' fairytales, written exclusively for adults, in English, arranged chronologically; beginning with 'Cupid and Psyche' by Apuleius (2nd century) to 'Pichounetta and the Sergeant of Arles' by Michael De Larrabeiti (1988) with sixty-five other stories in between by Straparola, Basile, Perrault, Voltaire, Goethe, Hoffmann, Hawthorne, Wilde, Yeats, Hesse, Calvino and Coover; also includes modern feminist writers Jane Yolen – 'The Lady and the Merman' (1976), Tanith Lee – 'When the clock Strikes' (1983) and Robin McKinley – 'The Princess and the Frog' (1981) – tales that reverse and question traditional sex roles; with notes, short bios of authors; over 25 illustrations.
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