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Jack Zipes

Author of The Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights (Volume 1)

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The Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights… (also Adapter) (Adapter) 468 copies, 4 reviews
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (also Editor) (Editor) 343 copies, 3 reviews
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North… 325 copies, 2 reviews
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers… 208 copies
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales 185 copies, 2 reviews
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature 158 copies
The Arabian Nights (Penguin Popular Classics) 135 copies, 3 reviews
Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight 132 copies
Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales 127 copies, 1 review
Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm II (Complete Fairy Tales of the… 126 copies
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children… 103 copies
The Arabian Nights, Vol. 2 (also Adapter) (Adapter) 102 copies, 2 reviews
Fairy Tale as Myth, Myth as Fairy Tale 93 copies
Beauty and the Beast: And Other Classic French Fairy Tales (also Editor) (Editor) 90 copies

Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales (Meridian) (also Editor) (Editor) 85 copies, 1 review

The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood 85 copies, 4 reviews

Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves 77 copies

The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World 72 copies, 1 review

When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition (Literary… 55 copies, 1 review

Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from… 54 copies, 2 reviews

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry 47 copies

Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre 43 copies

The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre 34 copies

Little Red Riding Hood and Other Classic French Fairy Tales 21 copies

Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days 21 copies

Creative Storytelling: Building Community/Changing Lives 20 copies

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (4 Volume Set) 18 copies

The Robber with a Witch's Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury… 15 copies

The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films 14 copies

The Operated Jew 11 copies

Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller 11 copies

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Also by Jack Zipes

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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Translator, some editions) 8,215 copies, 53 reviews
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Introduction, some editions) 3,221 copies, 72 reviews
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse (Introduction, some editions; Translator, some editions) 835 copies, 7 reviews
The Green Fairy Book (Introduction, some editions) 730 copies, 3 reviews
The Classic Fairy Tales [Norton Critical Edition] (Contributor) 510 copies, 3 reviews
Nutcracker and Mouse King, and The Tale of the Nutcracker (Introduction, some editions) 59 copies, 3 reviews
Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales… (Translator, some editions) 36 copies

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Zipes, Jack David

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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Dartmouth College (BA ∙ 1959)

Columbia University (Ph.D ∙ 1965)

University of Munich (1962)

University of Tübingen (1963)

Columbia University (MA ∙ 1960)

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Modern Language Association (Executive Council ∙ 1991-94)

Children's Literature Association

American Folklore Association

International Research Society for Children's Literature

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Fulbright Fellowship (1981-82)

Anne Devereaux Jordan Award (1999)

IAFA Distinguished Scholarship (1992)

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Arabian Nights, adapted by Jack Zipes from the Burton translation

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Mythopoeic Scholarship Award

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

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