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  • The Tale of Tales

    by Giambattista Basile, Nancy L. Canepa ...
    Translated by Nancy L. Canepa ...
    Now a major motion picture starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones, and Vincent Cassel: a rollicking, bawdy, fantastical cycle of 50 fairy tales told by 10 storytellers over 5 daysBefore the Brothers Grimm, before Charles Perrault, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was Giambattista Basile, a seventeenth-century poet from Naples, Italy, whom the Grimms credit with recording the first ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • From Court to Forest

    Giambattista Basile's Lo Cunto De Li Cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale

    by Nancy L. Canepa ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    From Court to Forest is a critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale.From Court to Forest is a critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale. Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de Ii cunti written in Neapolitan dialect and published in 1634-36, comprises fifty fairy tales and was the first integral collection of literary fairy ... Read more

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  • Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones

    by Giambattista Basile ...
    Translated by Nancy L. Canepa ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile's monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enchanted Boot

    Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

    by Nancy L. Canepa ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Tale of Tales

    by Giambattista Basile, Nancy L. Canepa ...
    Narrated by Various, Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Paul Boehmer, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron, Susan Denaker0, Kirby Heyborne1, Hillary Huber2, Ann Marie Lee3, John Lee4 ...
    Series series Penguin Audio Classics

    Unabridged

    18 hours 7 min

    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones, and Vincent Cassel: a rollicking, bawdy, fantastical cycle of 50 fairy tales told by 10 storytellers over 5 daysBefore the Brothers Grimm, before Charles Perrault, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was Giambattista Basile, a seventeenth-century poet from Naples, Italy, whom the Grimms credit with recording the ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Golden Ass

    by Apuleius, David Timson ...
    Narrated by David Timson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    ‘In this hapless state I looked myself over and saw that I was now no bird, but an ass…’ In this ancient picaresque adventure, Lucius, an insatiably curious young man, finds himself transformed into a donkey after his fascination with black magic and witchcraft goes awry. While trapped in his new body, he becomes the property of thieves, farmers, cooks, soldiers and priests, and observes the ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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    Also available as: eBooks

  • The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

    by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth ...
    Translated by Maria Tatar ...
    **A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in EnglishMove over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the “Cinderfellas” in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head.**With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    The Complete First Edition

    by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack Zipes ...
    The original version of the Grimms' tales in English for the first time—in an acclaimed, illustrated editionWhen Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar ... Read more

    $34.59 USD