A review by kikiandarrowsfishshelf
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture by Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, August Strindberg, Jack D. Zipes, Philip K. Dick, E.T.A. Hoffmann, W.B. Yeats, Jacob Grimm, Oscar Wilde, Theodor Storm, Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael de Larrabeiti, Mark Twain, Robert Coover, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Hans Christian Andersen, Voltaire, Robin McKinley, Charles Perrault, William Hawthorne, Tanith Lee, James Thurber, Hermann Hesse, Stanisław Lem, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anatole France, Wilhelm Grimm, Italo Calvino

4.0

A wonderful book that traces the development of the literary fairy tale. Zipes includes famous authors, such as Wilde and the Grimms, but he also includes less well known stories. The stories range in style, some are funny, some are dark. Most, however, are just plain good. I first read this when I was a freshman in college, and it turned me on to author's I had not read before. I have also used this in reading classes, and the students (even the males) enjoyed it.