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Original Title:	The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
ISBN:	0393051633 (ISBN13: 9780393051636)
Edition Language:	English

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales

Maria Tatar

Hardcover | Pages: 445 pages

Rating: 4.4 | 1471 Users | 72 Reviews

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Title	:	The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
Author	:	Maria Tatar
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 445 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2002 by W. W. Norton Company
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Folklore

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I usually love the Norton Annotated books, but this one was a disappointment. The first let-down was that Tatar also annotated The Annotated Brothers Grimm and The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, and many of the same fairy tales -- with the same or nearly the same annotations -- are included here. Only about 1/3 of the book is not available elsewhere, mostly Charles Perrault fairy tales. In addition, usually the art reproductions in these books are excellent, but in this case many of them were so small that it was impossible to see any detail (basically, they were thumbnail size), and the reproduction was very dark. Frequently the annotations would mention details in the illustrations that were difficult or downright impossible to see!

This is a fairly good collection if you haven't already read the Grimm and Andersen books, but otherwise it's definitely not one I would recommend purchasing. I really wish Tatar had just done an "Annotated Charles Perrault" or "Annotated French Fairy Tales" instead of this somewhat lazy and slapdash volume.

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If you're interested in fairy tales, and want to understand their true import as explicators of the state of ancient societies and their discontents, lessons, and mores -- then this is the edition you must have. Tatar's introductory essays are thoughtful and balanced, presenting Bettleheim's psychological analyses, more modern gender-based explanations, and her own thinking in good measure. The illustrations are gorgeous, the thinking profound, and the fairy tales themselves truly terrifying

I absolutely loved this book. This book was so cool because it had a bunch of different illustrations and I really liked the different annotated notes from Tatar. Sadly, we breezed through this book (she'd assign 6 fairy tales at a time) so I don't think I could've enjoyed the book quite as much as I would've liked, but otherwise, I absolutely adored the book and all it contained.

I really enjoyed reading these fairy tales that I remember from my childhood... and some new ones to go along with it. Tatar's annotations make these stories even more interesting now that I'm an adult. I only had to read a couple of them for class, but I just decided to read all of them to learn about some new tales and refresh my memory on some old ones. My two favorite from this collection were "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" I thought it was beautifully written, and "The Ugly

This is a great book to have if you're obsessed with fairy tales (like me) and love hearing about how they started, and about the psychological effects they have on children. This was a very interesting read. The pictures are nice too!

I read this book for a college course. While I did not like some of the stories, I loved others. Maria Tatar's notes were very thought-provoking and truly added to the experience of reading the stories.There are 26 main stories that are discussed in this book and 3 additional different versions of a few of the stories. I would not call all of the stories in this book fairy tales, some are definitely fables others folklore but overall they are definitely childhood classics. That being said, be

This was a interesting look at the history of the fairy tales we know and love. Originally told between adults, they were often lascivious--in one version Little Red Riding Hood performs a strip tease for the wolf (the common symbol of the predatory male.) As the stories made their way to the nursery, they were cleaned up. and often changed to impart a moral. The psychological reasoning shared in the annotations is fascinating. The book includes many of the original illustrations which are