Oddly Modern Fairy Tales13
Jack Zipes, Series Editor
Oddly Modern Fairy Tales is a series dedicated to publishing unusual literary fairy tales produced mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. International in scope, the series includes new translations, surprising and unexpected tales by well-known writers and artists, and uncanny stories by gifted yet neglected authors. Postmodern before their time, the tales in Oddly Modern Fairy Tales transformed the genre and still strike a chord.
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Twenty-nine Breton tales, as told over a series of long winter nights, featuring an ingenious miller, a Jerusalem-bound ant, a mad dash at midnight, and more
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A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales
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A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales—most in English for the first time
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A collection of radical political fairy tales—some in English for the first time—from one of the great female practitioners of the genre
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An enchanting retelling of nineteen fairy tales, introduced by popular fantasy writer Philip Pullman
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An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readers
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A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn
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A new collection of subversive French fairy tales
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Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current times
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A collection of political tales—first published in British workers’ magazines—selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen
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Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and...
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Intriguing fairy tales by the librettist of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle
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A satirical and modern retelling of beloved fairy tales