Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World

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Overview

The “tale as old as time,” in versions from across the centuries and around the world—published to coincide with Disney’s live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Audra McDonald, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Dan Stevens, and Emma Thompson

Nearly every culture tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in one fashion or another. From Cupid and Psyche to India’s Snake Bride to South Africa’s “Story of Five Heads,” the partnering of beasts and beauties, of humans and animals in all their variety—cats, dogs, frogs, goats, lizards, bears, tortoises, monkeys, cranes, warthogs—has beguiled us for thousands of years, mapping the cultural contradictions that riddle every romantic relationship.

In this fascinating volume, preeminent fairy tale scholar Maria Tatar brings together tales from ancient times to the present and from a wide variety of cultures, highlighting the continuities and the range of themes in a fairy tale that has been used both to keep young women in their place and to encourage them to rebel, and that has entertained adults and children alike. With fresh commentary, she shows us what animals and monsters, both male and female, tell us about ourselves, and about the transformative power of empathy.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143111696
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/07/2017
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 988,127
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Maria Tatar (editor) is the John L. Loeb Professor of Folklore and Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Heroine with 1,001 Faces, as well as the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition, The Grimm Reader, and The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Contents

Model Couples from Ancient Times
- Zeus and Europa (Ancient Greece)
- Cupid and Psyche (Ancient Rome)
- The Girl Who Married a Snake (India)
- Hasan of Basra (Persia)

Charismatic Couples in the Popular Imagination
- Beauty and the Beast (France)
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Norway)
- King Pig (Italy)
- The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich (Germany)
- The Swan Maidens (England)
- Princess Frog (Russia)
- The Peri Wife (Hindu-Persian)

Animal Grooms
- The Condor and the Shepherdess (Bolivia)
- The Parrot Prince (Chile)
- Nicholas the Fish (Colombia)
- The Muskrat Husband (Alaska)
- A Boarhog for a Husband (West Indies)
- The Monkey Bridegroom (Japan)
- Tale of the Girl and the Hyena-Man (Ghana)
- The Story of Five Heads (South Africa)
- The Golden Crab (Greece)
- The Girl Who Married a Dog (Native American)
- The Snake Prince (India)
- The Small-Tooth Dog (England)
- The Queen of the Pigeons (South Africa)

Animal Brides
- The Grateful Crane (Japan)
- The Piqued Buffalo-Wife (Native American)
- The Turtle and the Chickpea (Greece)
- The Frog Maiden (Myanmar)
- Chonguita (Phillipines)
- Urashima Taro (Japan)
- Oisin in Tir na n-Og (Ireland)
- The Dog Bride (India)
- The Swan Maiden (Sweden)
- The Hunter and the Tortoise (Ghana)
- The Peasant and Zemyne (Lithuania)
- Puddocky (Germany)
- The Man Who Married a Bear (Native American)

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