This Norton Critical Edition includes:

* Seven different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella,"

"Bluebeard," and "Tricksters." These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and

annotations by Maria Tatar.

* Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde.

* More than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales. New to the Second Edition are interpretations by Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Lüthi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-Jörg Uther.

* A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.