In the U.S., Bettelheim and "The Uses of Enchantment" won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the 1977 National Book Award in category Contemporary Thought. Robert A. Segal writes, "It is the disjunction between Bettelheim's up-to-date approach to fairy tales and his old-fashioned approach to myths that is striking." "The Uses of Enchantment" has been cited as an influence in many subsequent works that utilise fairy tales in adult terms, including the 2011 Catherine Hardwicke film "Red Riding Hood" and the 2014 fantasy horror film "Red Kingdom Rising". It was claimed by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine as the inspiration for their 1986 musical "Into the Woods".
Reception and influence
The Uses of Enchantment
The Uses of Enchantment | Reception and influence
It has been cited as an influence in many subsequent works that utilise fairy tales and as the inspiration for 1986 musical. In the U.S., Bettelheim and "The Uses of Enchantment" won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the 1977 National Book Award in category Contemporary Thought. It won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the 1977 National Book Award in category Contemporary Thought. It  won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the 1977 National Book Award in category Contemporary Thought.
when was goldilocks and the three bears written
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In 1837.
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what kind of a work is it?
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It is a British 19th-century fairy tale story.
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who is the composer?
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It is a story written by British writer and poet Robert Southey.
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what is the storyline?
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In one version a littele girl who enters the forest home of three bachelor bears whilst they are away. She sits in their chairs, eats some of their porridge, and sleeps in one of their beds. When the bears return and discover her, she wakes up, jumps out of the window, and is never seen again.
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what were the various interpretations this work received?
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The original version of the tale tells of a badly-behaved old woman, the second version replaced the old woman with a little girl named Goldilocks, the third version replaced the original bear trio with Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Baby Bear.
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what can you tell me about his other works?
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"The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales",  "The Tale of the Three Little Pigs", "The Uses of Enchantment".
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was he active in  politics?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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what all honors has he received?
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None, But It was well received and most popular fairy tales in the English language.
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what is the structure of his third work mentioned above?
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The first, "A Pocketful of Magic," outlines thoughts on the value of fairy tales for children. The second part, "In Fairy Land," presents psychoanalytical readings of several popular fairy tales.
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how was it received ?
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It is a spell, however, and one of selective magic, catching some readers away into the true lands of enchantment, and boring others to distraction." The award of the Carnegie Medal was unexpected, as none of the stories were new, but the collection was considered to give an opportunity for assessing and acknowledging "the achievement of the most gifted writer of the century who had dedicated his finest powers to delighting children".
Collected Stories for Children | Literary significance and reception
In the U.S., Bettelheim and "The Uses of Enchantment" won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the 1977 National Book Award in category Contemporary Thought. Robert A. Segal writes, "It is the disjunction between Bettelheim's up-to-date approach to fairy tales and his old-fashioned approach to myths that is striking." "The Uses of Enchantment" has been cited as an influence in many subsequent works that utilise fairy tales in adult terms, including the 2011 Catherine Hardwicke film "Red Riding Hood" and the 2014 fantasy horror film "Red Kingdom Rising". It was claimed by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine as the inspiration for their 1986 musical "Into the Woods".
The Uses of Enchantment | Reception and influence
A portrait of university life that’s contemplative and nostalgic.”
The Last Enchantments | Reception
"The Fairy Handbag" was the winner of the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette. It was also nominated for the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.
The Faery Handbag | Reception
The drama critic of "The New York Times" wrote: "Whether the piece was successful or not remains to be seen. Opinions differ. The audience was not enthusiastic. It laughed and it applauded. A portion of it hissed, but this portion was a miserable minority. The farce is in three acts. If it were in one it would be highly entertaining. In three it becomes tedious... Unless set to music by Sullivan [Gilbert's] dramatic Bab Ballads are unbearable. You see all their ugly points, observe all their inhumanity. The critic of the "Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News" wrote:
Foggerty's Fairy | Critical reception
In the book "Vagrant Memories," critic William Winter recalls how Daly came up with the device: "He was walking home toward night, thinking intently about the play which he had begun to write, when suddenly the crowning expedient occurred to him and at the same instant he stumbled over a misplaced flagstone, striking his right foot against the edge of the stone and sustaining a severe hurt. "I was near my door," he said, "and I rushed into the house, threw myself into a chair, grasping my injured foot with both hands, for the pain was great, and exclaiming, over and over again, 'I've got it! I've got it! And it beats hot-irons all to pieces!" I wasn't even thinking of the hurt.
Under the Gaslight | Reception
He did this in the two "Books of Lost Tales" by creating "an intricate metafictional structure", embedding his works in a framework of " translations of redactions of ancient works, telling of things even more ancient." Brljak argues that this framework is "both the cornerstone and crowning achievement of Tolkien's mature literary work."
The Book of Lost Tales | Reception
On Goodreads, it has a score of 3.86 out of 5.
How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When He Was a Little Boy | Reception
As the girl was so kind and compassionate toward her, the fairy blessed her with having either a jewel, a precious metal, or a pretty flower fall from her mouth whenever she spoke. Upon arriving home and explaining why she took so long to her mother, the widow was delighted at the sight of precious metals, jewels and flowers falling from the girl's lips, and desired that her favored eldest daughter, Fanny, should have the gift as well. Fanny protested, but the widow forcibly sent her to the well with instruction to act kindly toward an old beggar woman. Fanny set off but the fairy appeared as a fine princess, and requested that the girl draw her a drink from the well.
Diamonds and Toads | Summary
Most of the students received stipends even though they were the richest in the state. The Grimms did not receive any stipends because of their social standing; however, they were not upset by it since it kept the distractions away.
Grimms' Fairy Tales | Origin
For example, nobody could imagine anything more earthly than the outside of the house from which the little girl escaped with the fairy queen and her comrades. That should have been treated fancifully. The events pictured don't amount to anything; there is a sameness about them, nothing surprising happens, and not very much that is pretty. Worst of all is the poetry(?), which is interpolated to explain the narrative; that is beyond criticism. The Thanhouser Company has missed good opportunities in this film." The strange inclusion of the question mark after poetry is not a note by Bowers, for it was actually written into the review itself in the edition.
The Fairies' Hallowe'en | Release and reception
In "The Uses of Enchantment" (1976), the child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim describes Goldilocks as "poor, beautiful, and charming", and notes that the story does not describe her positively except for her hair. Bettelheim mainly discussed the tale in terms of Goldilocks' struggle to move past Oedipal issues to confront adolescent identity problems. In Bettelheim's view, the tale fails to encourage children "to pursue the hard labor of solving, one at a time, the problems which growing up presents", and does not end as fairy tales should with the "promise of future happiness awaiting those who have mastered their Oedipal situation as a child".
Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Interpretations
The film was named as "Best Picture of the month" by "Photoplay" on February 1922.
Enchantment (1921 film) | Reception
In England the best work of the years after the First World War was mainly in poetry, or fantasy, or poetic fantasy; in particular there was a spate of original stories in the folk-tale manner. Eleanor Farjeon was above all a poet, but from the 1920s onward she effectively used poetic language and fancy in creating literary but homely fairy tales for children, as did her fellow poet, Walter de la Mare. The "literary fairy tale" recreates traditional fairy tales and folktales in several respects, such as clear distinctions between good and evil, and their inevitable reward and punishment. Writing in this genre, Farjeon was one of the foremost 20th century followers of Hans Christian Andersen, which makes it fitting that she was the first recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1956.
The Little Bookroom | Literary significance and reception
[Sheldrake] carries us easily into these questions with ebullience and precision." After completing "Entangled Life", Sheldrake dampened a copy of the book, seeded it with spores, and ate the oyster mushrooms that grew from its pages. With another copy, he mashed up some of the pages to release their sugars, and fermented it into beer.
Entangled Life | Reception
The book is divided into two main sections. The first, "A Pocketful of Magic," outlines Bettelheim's thoughts on the value of fairy tales for children. The second part, "In Fairy Land," presents psychoanalytical readings of several popular fairy tales, specifically: Bettelheim presents a case that fairy tales help children solve certain existential problems such as separation anxiety, oedipal conflict, and sibling rivalries. The extreme violence and ugly emotions of many fairy tales serve to deflect what may well be going on in the child's mind anyway. A child's unrealistic fears often require unrealistic hopes. And furthermore, "The Frog King" may be superior to modern sex education in that it acknowledges that a child may find sex disgusting, and this may serve a protective function for the child.
The Uses of Enchantment | Structure and contents
Categorizing "Psycho Knocker" as "comeuppance theater," she enjoyed it more than "Fairy Cube"s conclusion, though still wrote that "it isn't her best work." A reviewer of the French edition disliked how quickly the story progressed, commenting that the protagonists' personalities were not fully explored as a result. The reviewer praised the covers of the first and third volumes as "magnificent".
Fairy Cube | Reception
This, however, does nothing to diminish my enthusiasm for her work." Wilby's work also proved an influence on the historian Joyce Froome in her study of the Pendle witches, "Wicked Enchantments" (2010).
Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits | Wider reception
The Flower Fairy raised princes and princesses in her house and never sent them away grown without a gift. Her favorite was the Princess Sylvia, but she was curious how some other princesses had prospered with their gifts. One day, she sent Sylvia to visit a former charge, Iris, who had received the gift of beauty. Sylvia returned with news that Iris thought that beauty supplied everything and she need do nothing else; unfortunately, she had fallen ill during the visit, and lost her looks. The fairy regretted that she could give such gifts once. She sent her to others, but the princess who received eloquence would not be quiet and wearied all her listeners in time; the princess who received the gift of pleasing was insincere and made all her lovers weary of her; the princess who received wit was always turning everything into an occasion for it and took nothing seriously.
Fairy Gifts | Synopsis
In "The Interpreter's House" (1975), David Daniell noted that the novel contains striking images and scenes, even though this and the other romance dealing with the politics of Evallonia ("The House of the Four Winds") did not represent Buchan at his best.
Castle Gay | Critical reception
A fairy would fly out of each, and he had to give her water at once. He returned home, and by the fountain, he was not quick enough for the first two, but was for the third. The woman was red and white, and the prince wanted to fetch her home properly, with suitable clothing and servants. He had her hide in a tree. A black slave, coming to fetch water, saw her reflection in the water, and thought it was her own and that she was too pretty to fetch water. She refused, and her mistress beat her until she fled.
The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale) | Synopsis
He gave it a score of four out of four.
11001001 | Reception
In comparing it to McKinley's of "Beauty and the Beast", Kathryn Harrison wrote in "The New York Times", "Ironically, this reworking has disabled the fairy tale, robbing it of tension and meaning, and creating for her readers a less usable enchantment."
Rose Daughter | Reception
He decides to give the doll back but the white stone in the garden has disappeared! The Prince waits until night and then he sneaks back into the garden. He finds that the stone has reappeared. When he lifts the stone he does not find Lady Emmelina but instead a grasshopper. The grasshopper tells him he must go on a quest to find the doll.
The Doll that Came Straight from Fairyland | Summary
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales is a 1976 book by Bruno Bettelheim, in which the author analyzes fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychoanalysis. The book has been a subject of controversy regarding possible plagiarism.
The Uses of Enchantment | Introduction
They took her to their castle and showed her their treasures; she admired them but was not bedazzled. Finally, they showed her rich clothing and asked her to choose a dress; she chose a cheap one. They asked her how she wanted to leave, and she said the stable door was good enough for her. They gave her a splendid gown, dressed her hair, and brought her to a golden door, telling her to look up when she went through it. A star fell on her forehead. Grannizia went to the same place and was rude, complaining of the lice in their hair.
The Three Fairies | Synopsis
The first three fairy tales are ones I heard during childhood, in the spinning room and during the harvesting of the hops; "Little Ida's Flowers" on the other hand, came into being one day while visiting the poet Thiele, when I was telling his daughter Ida about the flowers at the botanical gardens; I kept and adapted a few of the child's remarks when I later wrote the fairy-tale down."
The Tinderbox | Publication
A midwife is summoned to attend a childbed. The baby is born, and she is given an ointment to rub in its eyes. Accidentally, or through curiosity, she rubs one or both her own eyes with it. This enables her to see the actual house to which she has been summoned. Sometimes a simple cottage becomes a castle, but most often, a grand castle becomes a wretched cave. In the variant Andrew Lang included, the woman saw a neighbor of hers, kept prisoner as a nurse, and was able to tell her husband how to rescue her, pulling her down from riding fairies as in Tam Lin.
Fairy Ointment | Synopsis
The plotting is slow, though, so it's not for people with short attention spans."
Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two | Reception
Bettelheim analyzed fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychology in "The Uses of Enchantment" (1976). He discussed the emotional and symbolic importance of fairy tales for children, including traditional tales at one time considered too dark, such as those collected and published by the Brothers Grimm. Bettelheim suggested that traditional fairy tales, with the darkness of abandonment, death, witches, and injuries, allowed children to grapple with their fears in remote, symbolic terms. If they could read and interpret these fairy tales in their own way, he believed, they would get a greater sense of meaning and purpose. Bettelheim thought that by engaging with these socially evolved stories, children would go through emotional growth that would better prepare them for their own futures.
Bruno Bettelheim | "The Uses of Enchantment"
Vladimir Propp specifically studied a collection of Russian fairy tales, but his analysis has been found useful for the tales of other countries. Having criticized Aarne-Thompson type analysis for ignoring what motifs "did" in stories, and because the motifs used were not clearly distinct, he analyzed the tales for the "function" each character and action fulfilled and concluded that a tale was composed of thirty-one elements ('functions') and seven characters or 'spheres of action' ('the princess and her father' are a single sphere). While the elements were not all required for all tales, when they appeared they did so in an invariant order – except that each individual element might be negated twice, so that it would appear three times, as when, in "Brother and Sister", the brother resists drinking from enchanted streams twice, so that it is the third that enchants him.
Fairy tale | Morphology
The good times they have with the fairy's help will long remain in her memory, even though it is only a dream." "The New York Dramatic Mirror" was critical of the production, stating "This sounds as if it ought to be very clever, but aside from the work of the little heroine and the dance of the fairies it is entirely uninspired. It needs a drastic application of imagination. The broad idea is excellent, but the details of the management indicate impoverished resources. When the aid of fairies is invoked it opens up all sorts of avenues of fanciful treatment, but this film doesn't get away from stolid realities.
The Fairies' Hallowe'en | Release and reception
He asks Jasmine if she would like anything brought back, to which she replies that she'd only like a rose. After losing his way in the forest, the father finds a beautiful castle with food laid out on the table for him. He sees a rose in the garden and picks it for Jasmine. As soon as he does this, the shadowy master of the castle comes and yells at him for abusing his hospitality. The master gives the father a choice: Either he must die or leave someone else at the castle to die in his place. Without hesitation, the father returns home, gives Jasmine the rose, and sneaks Belle to the castle to be killed in his place.
Nightmares &amp; Fairy Tales | Issue 10
A fairy of many disguises encouraged Michael to eat enchanted food, but he was never fooled, since he could see who she really was through his piece of glass. Finally, the fairy gave him the heart of Joan along with some magical words to repeat when seeing her. When Michael returned he was mistakenly imprisoned, but as soon as he saw the Princess through the bars of his cell, he repeated the words, and the heart in his hand fluttered into Joan’s chest. She immediately recognized Michael, insisted they get married, and kissed him in front of all to see.
The Heart of Princess Joan | Plot summary
Gannibal received the following decorations from the Crown:
Ivan Gannibal | Decorations
The horse told him to demand a hundred dead oxen, cut to pieces, and they rode off. At the horse's instructions, he bridled the third horse that came to them, and then distracted the magician's raven by throwing the meat behind them. The groom claimed that he had said he could restore the king's vanished wife. The horse told him to ride it to the river, where it would dive in and assume her true form; she was the queen. This pleased the king, but the groom told him that the boy had threatened to take the throne, and the king sentenced him to be hanged.
The Gifts of the Magician | Synopsis
Orville Prescott of "The New York Times" found the novel "much less successful" than "The Incomplete Enchanter", saying that "Successful fantasy requires a deft delicacy of touch quite lacking in the heavy-handed technique" used here. Another "Times" reviewer, Beatrice Sherman, however, praised "Land" for its "piquant style that combines the medieval phrasing of the fairy-folk's conversation, the very modern talk and turns of thought of the changeling hero, and descriptions practical and poetical of the eerie magic scenery". "New Worlds" reviewer James Cawthorn declared the novel a "witty exploration of the world of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Ron Goulart described "Land" as "a screwball comedy .
Land of Unreason | Reception
The book is described by Margaret Drabble as: " '...those later written ... for the US...' "; and also: " '...of little interest' ".
The Fairy Caravan | Reception
Producer Joseph E. Levine paid $1 million for the film rights and to do the screenplay.. The novel was well received.
Magic (novel) | Reception
"New Fairy Tales" was a break-through for Andersen who, until its publication, had generally received vigorous condemnation from the Danish critics for his venture into the fairy tale genre. Reviews for the collection however were ecstatic. "Ny Portefeuille" wrote, "There is in these tales so much beauty and goodness, so much humour and seriousness, so much poetry and depth, that even the most disparate readers will by necessity find something of interest to them." Andersen wrote his confidante Henriette Wulff, "These tales have been received with unanimous applause. None of my other books have had such a success here at home, every paper commends them, everyone reads them [...] I am appreciated as the best fairy-tale teller."
New Fairy Tales (1844) | Critical reception
In the Winter 1991 edition of the peer-reviewed "Journal of American Folklore", Alan Dundes, then a 28-year veteran in the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley, presented a case that Bettelheim had copied key passages from "A Psychiatric Study of Myths and Fairy Tales: Their Origin, Meaning, and Usefulness" (1963, 1974 rev. ed.) by Julius Heuscher without giving appropriate credit, as well as unacknowledged borrowing from other sources. Dundes states that Bettelheim engaged in "wholesale borrowing" of both "random passages" and "key ideas," primarily from Heuscher's book, but also from other sources. Heuscher himself stated that he was not bothered by the disclosures.
The Uses of Enchantment | Plagiarism
Though no other review mentions poetry.
The Fairies' Hallowe'en | Release and reception
Later, Alex gives Mother Goose bubbly until she becomes drunk, and Alex asks her for information, which she unknowingly gives.
The Land of Stories | "The Enchantress Returns"
The prince was prepared, however, because that night he had his servant sleep in his bed. When the maid came in, the servant ripped off her robe and chased her out. Next, the princess sent her chambermaid to spy on the prince while he was asleep, but the prince's servant also ripped off her robe and chased her out. On the third night, the prince slept in his own bed, and the princess herself came in. The prince pretended to be asleep and the princess asked him the answer to the riddle. After the prince revealed the answer, the princess departed, but left her robe behind.
The Riddle (fairy tale) | Synopsis
The actors are marvelous acrobats, and the puppets are goofy. … "The Enchanted Well" shows Méliès at his best as an original writer and designer of his own 'ridiculous' fairy tales that have deep roots in folklore." Kemp R. Niver, in his comprehensive study of the Library of Congress Paper Prints, agreed: "This film represents [Méliès's] usual excellent work."
The Enchanted Well | Release and reception
A sorceress was afraid of her three sons. She turned the oldest into an eagle and the second into a whale, and each could take his human form for only two hours a day. The youngest son fled before he could suffer the same fate and went off to seek the king's daughter, bewitched and held prisoner in the Castle of the Golden Sun. He saw two giants quarreling over a wishing cap and they asked him to settle the dispute. He put on the cap, forgot he had it on, and wished himself to the castle. The king's daughter told him that only a crystal ball would break the enchantment.
The Crystal Ball (fairy tale) | Synopsis
"The Incomplete Enchanter" and "The Castle of Iron" have also been issued together as "The Compleat Enchanter" (1975); "Wall of Serpents" has also been issued under the title "The Enchanter Compleated" (1980); all three volumes of the original series have also been issued together as "The Complete Compleat Enchanter" (1989). The original tales and de Camp's additions from the 1990s were issued together as "" (2007).
Harold Shea | Collected editions
Meanwhile, GameTrailers criticized the presentation completely, citing the plot as predictable, the characters unengaging, the lightings flat, animations stiff, lipsyncing off, forgettable music, and the voice acting as dry.
Tales of Graces | Reception
In the Renaissance, both "Orlando Furioso" and "The Faerie Queene" had knight-errants who traveled in the woods. In "Jerusalem Delivered" by Torquato Tasso (1581), enchantments placed on the only forest near Jerusalem prevent the Crusaders from constructing siege engines for most of the epic poem, until they are broken by Rinaldo. While these works were being written, expanding geographical knowledge, and the decrease of woodland for farmland, meant the decrease of forests that could be presumed magical. In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", William Shakespeare wrote of a forest that was enchanted specifically by the presence of Oberon and Titania, the fairy king and queen; like many forests in Shakespeare's works, it becomes a place of metamorphosis and resolution.
Enchanted forest | Renaissance works
The youngest brother took the crystal ball to the enchanter, who admitted himself defeated and told him that the ball would also break the spell on his brothers. The youngest hurried to the princess, and they exchanged rings.
The Crystal Ball (fairy tale) | Synopsis
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, "Famitsu" gave it a score of 32 out of 40.
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land | Reception
Tolkien was an accomplished philologist, but he left a comparatively meagre output of academic publications. His works on philology which have received the most recognition are "", a 1936 lecture on the interpretation of the Old English poem "Beowulf", and his identification of what he termed the "AB language", an early Middle English literary register of the West Midlands. Outside philology, his 1939 lecture "On Fairy Stories" is of some importance to the literary genres of fantasy or mythopoeia. His 1930 lecture "A Secret Vice" addressed artistic languages at a time when the topic was of very limited visibility compared to the utilitarian projects of auxiliary languages.
Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien | Reception of non-fiction works
The twins' mother, Charlotte Bailey, doesn't show up on time, but another nurse at the hospital says that she had left two hours ago. They then hear a mysterious knock at the door and a bunch of fairy tale soldiers from the Charming Kingdom barge in. Bob was originally doubtful but he later accepts that the Fairy Tale world exists. The twins' grandmother, the Fairy Godmother, enters and explains that their mother was kidnapped. While their grandmother attends to her own business, Xanthous (a member of the Fairy Council) and Sir Lampton (their father's old friend) watch over them until Mother Goose takes over babysitting the twins.
The Land of Stories | "The Enchantress Returns"
On publication the novel was generally well received. Anna Gannon of Inis magazine said she saw "parallels to Alice in Wonderland". . American reviewer Usha Reynolds called the book "charming and funny". Books for Keeps' Huw Thomas described it as a "beautifully crafted tale." The book has been recommended as an example of magical storytelling by the Daily Telegraph's Toby Clements. Other reviewers have said it reminds them of the works of Enid Blyton and C. S. Lewis. 5 editions of the book have been published between 2008 and 2010.
Spellbound (Dale novel) | Reception
L. Sprague de Camp described the novel as "that comparative rarity, a first-rate humorous fantasy" and "wish[ed] the story had been at least fifty per cent longer."
The Mislaid Charm | Reception
The collection was reviewed by Tom Easton in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", October 2007.
The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt | Reception
By October 1881, Gilbert was rehearsing "Foggerty's Fairy" at the Criterion. At the opening night on 15 December 1881, Arthur Sullivan was in the audience. He found the play "ingenious, but unsatisfactory—like a dream". Audience reaction was favourable enough that Gilbert took a curtain call. The critics agreed that the piece was bold and original but uneven. The idea of the parallel universes conjured by the fairy was novel and intriguing but bewildering to audiences and critics, who were required to remember the original state of affairs and compare them to the magically transformed one. We are used to this type of story in plays and films today, but it was unprecedented and shocking in 1881.
Foggerty's Fairy | Productions
Receiving grew increasingly important in Early Modern society, and combined with the increasing interest of society on reading, it became the source for many writers, such as Daniel Defoe, with Moll Flanders and John Gay, with The Beggar's Opera. These works reflect how receiving was conceived and portrayed by authors.
Fence (criminal) | Early modern English literature
The purpose of this was to return the stage to the simplicity of the Elizabethan theatre, in which there was little scenery and the sense of location was generated by the poet's words. However, this approach was blended with modern elements: the trees of the forest were represented by giant slinky toys, and Titania's bower was a huge red feather. The fairy magic was represented by circus tricks. For example, the fairies entered on trapeze bars, and the love potion that Puck fetches was a spinning plate on a rod, which Puck handed to Theseus from a trapeze fifteen feet above the stage.
RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970) | Concept
Sir Luckless bathes in the water, after which he flings himself at Amata's feet and asks for "her hand and her heart" which she happily gives. Everyone gets an answer to his or her problem, unaware that the fountain held no magical power at all.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard | "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"
The boy played the zither, and the hangman had to dance all day. The next day, everyone came to see him hanged, the boy played the fiddle, and the whole crowd danced. The third day, the king wanted to refuse to let him play the flute, but the crowd persuaded him. The king insisted on being tied to a tree first, but he still danced, until his back was raw, and then the magician appeared. He destroyed the gallows and killed the king. The people chose the boy for their king, and the old groom drowned himself, because the boy might have been poor all his life without his interference.
The Gifts of the Magician | Synopsis
The heavy odour of incense seemed to cling about its pages and to trouble the brain. The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, a malady of dreaming ..."
À rebours | Reception and influence
Jason Thompson, in "", gave "The Young Magician" three and a half out of four stars, and praised it as "a powerful work of modern fantasy" with Narushima's writing and page layouts being an asset.
The Young Magician | Reception
Even with the inconsistencies, there's plenty to laugh at and even to ponder".
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School | Reception
They brought her to the wardrobe, and she grabbed the fanciest dress. They did not give it to her, but sent her out the stable door, where a donkey's testicle fell on her forehead. Her furious mother took Cicella's clothing and gave it to Grannizia, and sent Cicella to tend pigs. There, a nobleman, Cuosemo, saw her and asked her stepmother for leave to marry her. Caradonia agreed, sealed up Cicella in a barrel, and presented Grannizia as the bride instead. After the wedding night, he went back to the house, and a tabby cat told him that Cicella was in the barrel.
The Three Fairies | Synopsis
[...] My favorite parts are the scribblings of Greenwood from his original notes, it’s amazing to see how far this world has come in the past four decades since he first imagined it."
Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms | Reception
Anthony Boucher received the novel favourably, comparing it to the "spiritual fantasies" of Charles Williams and describing it as "a strange story, with strong allegorical overtones, told in a readably down-to-earth way."
The Magicians (Priestley novel) | Reception
The fairy laughed at her in the garden, and the slave noticed her. She asked her story and on hearing it, offered to arrange her hair for the prince. When the fairy agreed, she stuck a pin into her head, and the fairy only escaped by turning into a bird. When the prince returned, the slave claimed that wicked magic had transformed her.
The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale) | Synopsis
Until then, the fairy requested that Hulda keep it safe for her while she was gone. Days passed and the fairy had never returned, this left Hulda believing that the fairy had died. Then a dishonest guest paid a visit to Hulda and convinced her to trade the wand for a piece of his beautiful jewelry. After trading the wand for a bracelet with a bird clasp, Hulda realizes her visitor was actually a gnome. The gnome was the enemy the fairy had been worried about; with the wand in his possession he would make the fairy his slave. Hulda was aware she made a mistake, and did not rest until she retrieved the gold wand and returned it to the fairy.
A Lost Wand | Summary
Danilo the Craftsman became one of the best known characters of Bazhov's tales. The fairy tale inspired numerous adaptations, including films and stage adaptations. It is included in the school reading curriculum. "The Stone Flower" is typically adapted with "The Master Craftsman". It generated a Russian catchphrase "How did that Stone Flower come out?" (, lit. "Naught came of your Stone Flower?"), derived from these dialogue: "Well, Danilo the Craftsman, so naught came of your thornapple?" "No, naught came of it," he said. The style of the story was praised.
The Stone Flower | Reception and legacy
The novel was praised by critics. It won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize.
Rituals (novel) | Reception
. . an affable novel, and for all its preoccupation with drinking and jumping into bed, a gentle one." Baird Searles noted the novel's "Alice-in-Wonderland surrealism, particularly when the inhabitants of Fairyland get going on logic-chopping and semantics. But the logic of this novel is illogic; the reason for it unreason; somehow it all hangs together triumphantly nonetheless". E. F. Bleiler found it "one of the better semihumorous heroic fantasies, a good child of "Phantastes", with clever integration of incident and theme".
Land of Unreason | Reception
Ella of Frell is given at her birth the gift of obedience by Lucinda the Fairy. She is now forced to follow through with every command she is told. When Ella is around fourteen, she and her mother are taken ill. Ella recovers while her mother dies. Her cook Mandy reveals herself to be her Fairy godmother. She is also given two gifts by Mandy: a gnome-crafted necklace from her mother and a magic book which allows her to see diary entries, letters and fairy tales. At her mother's funeral, Ella meets the kingdom's prince, Char, who expresses fondness for her mother.
Ella Enchanted | Summary
When the young wife does so, her husband wakes and tells her that the spell would have fallen from him in three days, but now he must remain in this shape, and she will not find him without wearing out three pairs of iron shoes and blunting a steel staff.
The Enchanted Pig | Synopsis
He also said bringing up the inventory took a series of fire button presses.
Slightly Magic | Reception
According to animation historian Jerry Beck, the film exhibited Toei Animation's effort to use the "Disney formula of presenting a traditional folktale with songs and plenty of cute animals."
Magic Boy (film) | Reception
Other tales of this type include "The Magician's Horse" and "Little Johnny Sheep-Dung". Similar motifs are found in "Iron John", "Guerrino and the Savage Man", and "The Hairy Man". The dispossessing of the king is found in "The Grateful Beasts", "Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful", "The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa", and "King Fortunatus's Golden Wig".
The Gifts of the Magician | Motifs
Equally, some have raised concerns over the drastic abridging of longer stories such as "Pinocchio" and the right to retelling distinctly literary fairy tales with a clear author such as Hans Christian Andersen.
Well Loved Tales | Reception
After finding a magical ring in her slice of cake, Hulda is given the opportunity to make a wish. A fairy appears from the flower on top of the cake, and tells Hulda she will give her anything she wishes for. Unknowing of what her wish would bring, she asks for the fairy's wand. After handing Hulda her beautiful gold wand, the fairy is stripped of her powers and will ultimately be held at the will of her enemy if she doesn’t one day retrieve the wand. It could not be returned immediately, it had to be on a midsummers day.
A Lost Wand | Summary
The plot thus skates along very gracefully for an hour and a half over the thinnest possible ice; but in the end Luisa finds riches, happiness and true love without the sacrifice of anything but her time... a wickedly innocent little anecdote which delicately avoids giving offense.“
The Good Fairy (film) | Reception
The second day, the king sent the princess to get one; the boy would only trade one for a kiss, and when she had it and had reached the gates of the castle, he used the whistle, and it came back. The next day, the king sent the queen to get one; the boy would only trade one if the queen turned three somersaults, and when she did, the king locked it in a room but the boy used his whistle and it came back through a window. The fourth day, the king went himself. The boy would only trade it if the king kissed his donkey's behind.
The Three May Peaches | Synopsis
This is really mature and clever storytelling with the strangest taste of an old O. Henry morality tale."
Redfern Now | Reception
Robertson, and the understanding portrayals of May McAvoy and Richard Barthelmess have in a large measure preserved its delicacy."
The Enchanted Cottage (1924 film) | Reception
Sothern did not produce the play in the spring, and scholar Andrew Crowther speculates that Gilbert was late in completing it. In addition, Sothern had been ill for much of the time since the autumn, although he fulfilled his performing commitments.
Foggerty's Fairy | Genesis
Early reviews of "The Lord of the Rings" were sharply divided between enthusiastic support and outright rejection.
Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien | Literary reception
The merchant was angry. Remington Ram saw him laying dusty on the ground on the road, and asked him what had happened. Then he sat up and told him to go back the next day, and ask for his box when someone gave him a signal. While he was waiting, a donkey with a man on top arrived, and the man was told that a lady wished to leave her boxes of jewels with him, for safety. While the talk was still going on, the merchant received the signal and came to ask. The man decided that it would put off the lady, and handed over the box.
Diamond Cut Diamond (fairy tale) | Synopsis
She was pleased when he told his mother of her, because she had fooled him, and laughed under the table. The second ball, she went in a gown of sunlight, and his attempts to follow her carriage did not succeed. The third time, the prince succeeded in getting a ring on her finger. When he went home, he declared he would search for her. First, he wanted some soup, and for the bear to have nothing to do with it, because every time he mentioned his love, the bear muttered and laughed. The bear put the ring in the soup.
The Bear (fairy tale) | Synopsis
Dave Langford reviewed "The Ladies of Mandrigyn" for "White Dwarf" #86, and stated that "Add unpleasant magical gimmicks and well-drawn characters, and the result is a ripping fantasy yarn."
The Ladies of Mandrigyn | Reception
The fairy tale is about a man who makes his only daughter work very hard. One day after work, he sends her to collect firewood and so she does. While searching for the wood, she picks herself a sprig of rosemary as well. Then a handsome young man appears and asks why she has come to steal his firewood. She replies that her father sent her. The young man leads her to a castle and tells her that he is a great lord and wants to marry her. She agrees so they marry. While living there, she meets an old woman who looks after the castle and the woman gives her the keys but warns her that if she uses one, the castle will fall to pieces.
The Sprig of Rosemary | Synopsis
In the kingdom of Fairyland, three magic jewels were enshrined in the palace to maintain peace in the kingdom. One day, an evil man broke into the palace and stole one of the three magic jewels. Without the third jewel, the two remaining jewels lost their magic sparkle. The magic spell that sealed the power of Varalys, the most vicious demon in the kingdom, was broken. During the turmoil which followed, the last two jewels were stolen. Varalys cast a special magic on Princess Ann, turning her into three fairies, and hid her somewhere in the kingdom. He then let loose a horde of monsters across the land and became the ruler of the kingdom.
Hydlide | Plot
No agreement was achieved. As long as the Fairies remained at all they remained evasive."
The Discarded Image | "The "Longaevi""
He too changes travelers into beastly forms that 'roll with pleasure in a sensual sty'. Having waylaid the heroine and immobilized her on an enchanted chair, he stands over her, wand in hand, and presses on her a magical cup (representing sexual pleasure and intemperance), which she repeatedly refuses, arguing for the virtuousness of temperance and chastity. The picture presented is a mirror image of the Classical story. In place of the witch who easily seduces the men she meets, a male enchanter is resisted by female virtue.
Circe | Parallels and sequels
delighted, carried away, absorbed by "The Lord of the Rings" ... I wish I could say it in the fair Elven tongue." Richard Hughes wrote that nothing like it had been attempted in English literature since Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene", making it hard to compare, but that "For width of imagination it almost beggars parallel, and it is nearly as remarkable for its vividness and the narrative skill which carries the reader on, enthralled, for page after page." Naomi Mitchison, too, was a strong and long-time supporter, corresponding with Tolkien about "Lord of the Rings" both before and after publication.
Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien | Enthusiastic literary support
C. S. Lewis had read "Letters from Hell" and something of its influence may be detected in "The Screwtape Letters". Hans Christian Andersen was absorbed by the book and found details reminiscent of his own fairy-tales.
Letters from Hell | Reception
He let her out, put Grannizia in her place, and fled with her. Caradonia returned with wood, created a fire, and boiled water to scald Cicella to death. She poured it in the barrel. Grannizia died, and Caradonia opened the barrel, saw her own daughter, and drowned herself in the well.
The Three Fairies | Synopsis
One day, as she was giving birth, fairies asked for shelter; she tried to plead that she was not well, but the fairies continued pleading, and she let them stay. When she gave birth to a daughter, the fairies blessed the baby with beauty, riches, and having flowers fall from her mouth when she spoke. This reconciled the sisters who married princes with their youngest sister. When the enchanted maiden had grown up, a prince who was betrothed to a daughter of her aunt fell in love with her and wanted nothing to do with his betrothed. He fell ill, and his physicians ordered him to travel.
The Enchanted Maiden | Synopsis
Some critics see the gifts as symbolic of the powers of poetry, which the Squire is still learning to use. There is no clear source for the story; it is instead a collection of ideas and themes from many romances, as befits the Squire, a lover of such literature. The extravagant details on Eastern kingdoms come from the travel literature of the time, such as Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, Simon of St Quentin and John Mandeville. The episode of the falcon and the tercelet is similar to part of "Anelida and Arcite", an early work of Chaucer's.
The Squire's Tale | Criticism and continuations
A widower forbade his only son to shoot at some birds. One day, he did so, and chased after a bird he wounded until he became lost in the forest. When night fell, he saw a magician being chased by wolves. He shot the largest wolf, which put all the rest to flight. The magician gave him shelter during the night. In the morning, he could not be woken. The magician left to hunt. The boy woke and talked with the maid servant, who told him to ask for the horse in the third stall as a reward. When he did, the magician tried to persuade him otherwise, but finally gave it to him, along with a zither, a fiddle, and a flute, telling him to play each one in turn if he were in danger.
The Gifts of the Magician | Synopsis
The "Los Angeles Times" called it "a diverting little musical seemingly just missing the hilarious note evidently aimed at." "Diabolique" magazine called it "a joyous, breezy, silly musical made with predominantly young talent; you can feel Lubin being in complete charge of the material and having a ball."
Where Did You Get That Girl? | Reception
"Spellbound!" was moderately well received, getting two and a half stars out of five from Allgame.
Spellbound! | Reception