Jack Zipes

Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales

A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales

A new, beautifully illustrated translation of Felix Salten’s celebrated novel Bambi—the original source of the beloved story

An enchanting selection of Madame d’Aulnoy’s seventeenth-century French fairy tales, interpreted by contemporary visual artist Natalie Frank

Marcel Reich-Ranicki is remarkable for both his unlikely life story and his brilliant career as the "pope of German letters." His sublimely written autobiography is at once a fascinating adventure tale, an unusual account of...

A collection of radical political fairy tales—some in English for the first time—from one of the great female practitioners of the genre

A diverse new anthology that traces the meaning and magic of the sorcerer’s apprentice tale throughout history

A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn

Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current times

The original vision of Grimms' tales in English for the first time

In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual...

Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and...

Intriguing fairy tales by the librettist of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle

A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authorities