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 an 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 Luthi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-Jorg Uther. A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.