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Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

By
Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar
1992

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47 books

Literary Theory Criticism

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Alina
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity
Anatomy Of Criticism
The Pooh Perplex
Joan Didion: Substance and Style

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109 books

Wish List

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Making Money: The Play
Guards! Guards!: The Graphic Novel
The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007
Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary, 1999
Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008
Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998

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816 books

Unread

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1984
A Clockwork Orange
Franny and Zooey
The Fall
Catch-22
Cat's Cradle
Sweet Thursday

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320 books

Files Are In The Computer

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Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Know the Past, Know the Future: NYPL at 100
The Bridge of Silver Wings
The Thief's Tale chapter 1
Eternally Bad: Goddesses With Attitude

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66 books

Hard To Find

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DC Comics Presents: Brightest Day, Vol. 1
Batman: Featuring Two Face and the Riddler
Heroes
The World of Michael Parkes
The Art of Michael Parkes

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145 books

Fairy Folktales

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Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Favorite Medieval Tales
The Rumpelstiltskin problem
Blue Fairy Book
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

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75 books

Hoopla

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Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering life's questions in 101 charts
Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains: Masculinity in Disney's Feature Films
My Depression : A Picture Book
True Roots: What Quitting Hair Dye Taught Me about Health and Beauty
Ask Me About Polyamory
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West

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3,780 books

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Elizabeth
Fatherland
Trainspotting
News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir
A Box of Matches
A Fine and Private Place
Absolute Beginners
A Flag for Sunrise

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Elizabeth
News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
All the Lives I Want
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367 books

Tbr 2013

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Elizabeth
A Kiss Before Dying
A Treacherous Likeness
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
A Land More Kind Than Home
Angelopolis
Almost English

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347 books

Owned

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The House of Mirth
The Coquette
Pride and Prejudice
Note To Self
The Shack
A Bad Case Of The Giggles: Kids' Favorite Funny Poems

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49 books

Grad School

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
White Noise
The Crying of Lot 49
Tropic of Orange
Course in General Linguistics

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26 books

Lit Theory

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Course in General Linguistics
How to Do Things with Words
Simulations
Rhetoric
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?
Erring: A Postmodern A/theology
Selected Literary Essays