When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, Second Edition

Front cover......Page 1
Preface to the 2007 Edition......Page 8
Preface to the 1999 Edition......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
1. Spells of Enchantment......Page 16
2. The Rise of the French Fairy Tale and the Decline of France......Page 48
3. The Splendor of the Arabian Nights......Page 68
4. Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm......Page 80
5. The “Merry” Dance of the Nutcracker......Page 100
6. I’m Hans Christian Andersen......Page 124
7. The Flowering of the Fairy Tale in Victorian England......Page 158
8. Oscar Wilde’s Tales of Illumination......Page 182
9. Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio as Tragic-Comic Fairy Tale......Page 190
10. Frank Stockton, American Pioneer of Fairy Tales......Page 202
11. L. Frank Baum and the Utopian Spirit of Oz......Page 210
12. Revisiting J. M. Barrie’s Peter......Page 234
13. Hermann Hesse’s Fairy Tales and the Pursuit of Home......Page 254
Bibliography......Page 270
Index......Page 300
Back cover......Page 338