When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition

by Jack D. Zipes

Book Overview

For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why?

In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415980070
• ISBN13: 9780415980074
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Helpful compilation of Zipes' works

This book is a collection of introductions and essays from previous books Zipes has published, usually his collections of fairytales. The texts have been somewhat reworked and it is great to have them all gathered into one place for reading. Since this is a smaller volume, it is easier to carry around than his Grimms, Beauty and the Beast, Aesop's Fables, etc. when you just need to read the scholarly works and not the primary texts of the tales. Zipes has made great contributions to this field and this volume serves as a reminder of the breadth of his work.