One of our most beloved and elemental fairy tales, in versions from across the centuries and around the world-published to coincide with Disney's live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Audra McDonald, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, and Emma Thompson.
Maria Tatar (editor) is the John L. Loeb Professor of Folklore and Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Heroine with 1,001 Faces, as well as the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Classic Fairy Tales- A Norton Critical Edition, The Grimm Reader, and The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[This] new book from Penguin ... provides some historical context
[to the Disney film] ... Most of the stories about young women and
animal grooms follow a predictable pattern ... But the Penguin book
also includes plenty of stories in which the genders are flipped,
pairing young men with animal brides.
*The New Yorker*
The tales in Tatar's compilation swing from vicious to romantic,
from comedy to horror ... Tatar's book alone contains stories from
almost two dozen countries.
*NPR.org*
A rich, intriguing volume highly recommended for fairy-tale
fans.
*Booklist*
Maria Tatar's new collection for Penguin Classics ... ventur[es]
deeper into the rich universe of animal bridegroom stories ...
There is also the parallel tradition of animal bride stories-swan
maidens and selkies with a much sharper edge than The Little
Mermaid ... The source material here is much richer in
possibilities than turning Belle into a crusader for women's
literacy.
*Jezebel*
Maria Tatar rounded up stories about animal brides and grooms from
around the world in this new Penguin Classics collection, and while
I am a certified fairy tale nerd, there was plenty in this book
that was new to me.
*Vox*
Superb ... Each story is basically an expression of anxiety about
marriage and relationships-about the animalistic nature of sex, and
the fundamental strangeness of men and women to each other ...
Tatar points out, too, that every generation of monsters speaks to
the anxieties of its time.
*The Atlantic*
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