Cinderella

by Alan Dundes

Book Overview

Covering a period of more than one hundred years of work by renowned folklorists, these enlightening essays explore the timeless tale of Cinderella. In addition to the most famous versions of the story (Basile's Pentamerone, Perrault's Cendrillon, and the Grimm's Aschenputtel), this casebook includes articles on other versions of the tale from Russian, English, Chinese, Greek and French folklore. The volume concludes with several...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299118649
• ISBN13: 9780299118648
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A Guide to Cinderella

This is an excellent collection of articles on the fairytale Cinderella. My particular favorite is Dundes' own article on the origins of the story we've come to know as King Lear in one of the early Cinderella variants. For anyone interested in the history and criticism of fairytales, this is an excellent book with many different view points on various versions of Cinderella.