Fairy Tale and Classic Story Re-telling
- Beauty and the Beast (with Marianna Mayer) (1978) ISBN 1-58717-017-5
- East of the Sun & West of the Moon (1980)
- Favorite Tales from Grimm (Retold by Nancy Garden) (1982)
- The Sleeping Beauty (1984) ISBN 0-02-765340-4
- A Christmas Carol (1986) (retold with mice, originally by Charles Dickens) ISBN 0-02-730310-1
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1987)
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Famous quotes containing the words fairy tale, fairy, tale, classic and/or story:
“... and the next summer she died in childbirth.
That’s all. Of course, there may be some sort of sequel but it is not known to me. In such cases instead of getting bogged down in guesswork, I repeat the words of the merry king in my favorite fairy tale: Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former—the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers—prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.”
—Joseph Campbell (1904–1987)
“And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.
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—Dudley Randall (b. 1914)
“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)