- Seven different tale types: Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Tricksters. These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar. - Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. - More than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales. New to the Second Edition are interpretations by Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max L thi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-J rg Uther. - A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.
Tatar, Maria: - Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm , she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.