From The Beast To The Blonde
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409028635
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

From The Beast To The Blonde

On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

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At once thoroughly enjoyable and academically rigorous, this lively and fascinating study of fairy tales and their social relevance throughout the ages is a modern classic

Entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts in which they flourished. It also lifts the curtain on the tellers themselves - from ancient sibyls and old crones to the more modern Angela Carter and, of course, Walt Disney. A brilliant compendium of folklore, fairytales and learning which reveals unexpected links and histories behind some of our oldest and most-loved tales.
  • Published: 1 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409028635
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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Praise for From The Beast To The Blonde

Can itself evoke the sense of startled wonder that these tales first gave us

Laurel Graeber, New York Times

Consistently enlightening...this is a brilliant work: wise, witty and as magisterially omniscient as any Sibylline oracle

Nicholas Tucker, New Statesman and Society

Just like the tale-tellers she celebrates...she's a weaver of enchantments, each sentence is like a silken knot charming you further into her web of meanings

Michelle Roberts, Independent on Sunday

Open the book at almost any page and you will find something to fascinate you

Noel Malcolm, Guardian

She is a terrific writer and an original scholar. This is a landmark book

Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph
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