The Classic Fairy TalesEdition 3

“Like the heroines and heroes whose stories she has made available to us through her careful editing, translation, and annotation, Tatar has performed a worthy feat in bringing together in The Classic Fairy Tales an invaluable selection of texts, critical essays, and a select bibliography. Fittingly, the central message which underlies the anthology is one of hope.”

—AILBHE NIC GIOLLA CHOMHAILL, University of Limerick, on the Second Edition

“[…] Tatar provides a selection of the most widely read and adapted traditional fairy tales, along with some of their modern revisionings, accompanied by a balanced critical overview of scholarship in the field. She has successfully attempted to keep up with the ever-changing, growing field of fairy tale scholarship.”

—TONI THIBODEAUX, Columbia State Community College, on the Second Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Over sixty fairy tales from around the world and across the ages, many translated for this edition, organized by an expanded sense of tale type into nine groupings.
• An all-new section on “natureculture,” exploring interactions among humans, animals, and the environment in fairy tales.
• A revised introduction and headnotes to each tale type by Maria Tatar, showing how fantastical stories we tell children really tell us so much more about ourselves.
• A robust selection of criticism, much of it new to or exclusively written for this Third Edition, responding to student interest in themes and lenses such as queer adaptations, disability studies, and decolonization
• An updated selected bibliography.