A Short Bibliography of Fairy Tales

As I said previously the study of fairy tales is the work of a lifetime and not one I have undertaken. But here is a short bibliography of the books sitting on my shelves that I hope you will find interesting if you want to read further.

1                         Tellings of Fairytales

Penguin Classics include the following:

The Brothers Grimm (trans Jack Zipes) – The Complete Fairy Tales

Franz Xaver von Schonwerth (trans Maria Tatar) - The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

Giambattista Basile (trans Nancy L. Canepa) – The Tale of Tales

Charles Perrault (Angela Carter) – The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Hans Christian Andersen (trans Tiina Nunnally)  - Fairy Tales 

Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov (trans Elizabeth Chandler)

Angela Carter - Book of Fairy Tales  (formerly the Virago Book of Fairy Tales 1 & 2)

Alan Garner - Collected Folk Tales

Andrew Lang – Fairy Books series (out of copyright and freely available)

Neil Philip – The Watkins Book of English Folktales (formerly the Penguin Book of English Folktales)

Charles Philips - Forests of the Vampire, Slavic Myth and Mankind (includes two Baba Yaga stories)

Maria Tatar – The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Edition)

2                         Reference Books

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (ed Zipes) – 67 experts contribute to this A-Z companion

Companion to The Fairy Tale (ed Hilda R Ellis Davidson, Anna Chaudhri) – a collection of essays by various experts in the field.

3                         Books on Fairy Tales and Their History

Cristina Bacchilega  - Postmodern Fairy Tales – Gender and Narrative Strategies

Marianne Moore  - Fairy Tales: Faber Stories

Susan Sellers - Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Marina Warner - Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale

Marina Warner - From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Marina Warner - No Go The Bogeyman

Jack Zipes - The Irresistible Fairy Tale, The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

Jack Zipes - Why Fairy Tales Stick, The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre

Jack Zipes - Breaking the Magic Spell, Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

4                         On Specific Fairy Tales & Characters

Andreas Johns - Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale

Dubravka Ugresic - Baba Yaga Laid An Egg (the last part of the book is an essay on Baba Yaga)

Maria Tatar - Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

5                         Jungian Interpretation of Fairy Tales

Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With Wolves

Marie-Louise Von Franz - various books including

Marie-Louise Von Franz - Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales

Marie-Louise Von Franz - Shadow and Evil in Fairytales

Marie-Louise Von Franz -Individuation in Fairy Tales