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  • The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmPerhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Lost and Found or How the Wellikans Helped the Twins Avoid a Catastrophe

    by Jack Zipes ...
    The twin witches, Anja and Zack, are left stunned when they discover that Nexus, the sinister dictator, has escaped death and been reborn as an even more dangerous monster bent on world domination. Together with their allies, the Wellikans, the twins embark on a series of adventures, standing in Nexus's way at every turn. Yet each victory comes at a cost, and it is far from certain that they can ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never-Ending Tales

    Stories from the Golden Age of Jewish Literature

    by Jack Zipes ...
    An anthology of European and American short stories from the 1870s through the 1930s in which Jewish writers respond to antisemitism with humor, satire, irony, and hopeBetween the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jewish writers in Europe and America published countless stories addressing “the Jewish Question”—the intense debate about the treatment of Jews following their so-called ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Breaking the Magic Spell

    Radical Theories of Folk & Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    "Zipes ably demonstrates that moral, political, religious, and other ideologies have shaped these apparently innocent narratives." — Lore and LanguageThis revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grimm Legacies

    The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    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 role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale.Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Grammar of Fantasy

    An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories

    by Gianni Rodari ...
    Translated by Jack Zipes ...
    From the father of modern Italian children’s literature, this is one of the great works about the imagination and how stories are made—featuring radiant illustrations from Matthew Forsythe and a refreshed translation from Jack Zipes.A Marginalian Favorite Book of 2025!"Holds great value for the adults who teach kids and the adults who write for them." —Mac Barnett, U.S. National Ambassador for ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering the Jewish and German Questions

    Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes’s insightful essays and presentations on fairy tales, Jewish studies, philosophy, drama, and the German public sphere.The collection begins by considering how fairy tales have been shaped by societies, and how they have influenced society in turn. Zipes considers the history of the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Home is Not Sweet or How the Wellikans and the Twins Found Truth

    by Jack Zipes ...
    In the course of this novella, Nexus keeps transforming himself and becomes more brutal. Neither the Twins nor the Wellikans are killers, and they must somehow find a way to end the ruthless activities of the dictator Nexus. Fortunately, they manage to find the most appropriate punishment for all the crimes that Nexus has committed. It is not clear where the Twins and the Wellikans are at the end ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society.As Jack ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Ernst Bloch

    The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United States from 1938 to 1940. It was first published, however, in East Germany in the 1950s after he had returned to Europe and became a ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • The Irresistible Fairy Tale

    The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

    by Jack Zipes ...
    A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authoritiesIf there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Buried Treasures

    The Power of Political Fairy Tales

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy talesJack Zipes has spent decades as a “scholarly scavenger,” discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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