The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales

This book is a softcover in fine condition. The covers are clean, with no creasing along the spine. The pages are clean and unmarked throughout. From a private library. An anthology built around its contributors: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Perrault, Madame Leprince de Beaumont, Hans Christian Andersen, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasiev, Wilhelm Hauff, Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde and James Thurber. Editors Alfred David and Mary Elizabeth Meek, both English professors, draw on traditions from Germany, Russia, France, Scandinavia, England and America, and their introduction argues that fairy tales are adult literature that children have adopted. Many selections are in new translations in a modern idiom. Indiana University Press, Midland Book paperback. Originally published in 1964, reissued as a Midland Book in 1974, and this copy is a later printing.