When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition - Tapa dura

"An enticing reexamination of cherished texts." -"Kirkus Reviews, December 1998 ..."Zipes writes with a keen sense of balance between the discourse of the academy and the passion of the reader, between the authority and the fan, and he sends us back to material we thought was familiar, and makes us see it differently." -"Locus, August 1999 "Jack Zipes...uncovers provocative new layers of meaning by viewing the collection and creation of now classic tales by the Brothers Grimm. Hans Christian Andersen and others through the lens of history." -"The New York Times00, 3/21/99 ..."a fascinating social history of the uses and abuses to which fairy tales have been put in the course of their transformation from tales told orally by adults to adults into written (and frequently homogenized) bedtime stories parents read to the children. Zipes persuasively argues that fairy tales keep alive our 'longing for a better world that can be created out of our dreams and actions'." -New York Times Book Review "Zipes has forged a career out of brilliant and subversive analyses of fairy tales....Intelligent and thoughtful fun, without deconstructing the land of Faerie into dust and ashes." -"Booklist, 01/01/99

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.