{"product_id":"fairy-tales-for-grown-ups","title":"Terri Winding Ed: Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost people think of fairy tales as stories intended for children, but this is a relatively recent idea. For thousands of years, such tales were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike; and the earliest printed fairy tales in Europe were published for adult readers. These older versions of fairy tales were sensual, bawdy, unflinchingly violent, and morally complex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was largely during the Victorian era that tales were turned into children's stories, a trend reinforced by Walt Disney's animation. The banishment of the tales to the nursery abruptly changed in the 1970s for two primary reasons: Feminist fairy tale scholars began digging into the history of the stories and Angela Carter published her ground-breaking collection: The Bloody Chamber (1979). This set off a whole literary movement of writers re-working classic tales in wild, witty and wonderful ways. The Modern Revival of Adult Fairy Tales is still going strong almost fifty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this anthology, Terri Windling gathers together some of the best of the adult fairy tales published in the last five decades: stories in a range of moods and styles, dark and bright; horrific and funny; sensual, stark and startling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ed Terri Winding","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53093825806675,"sku":"9780712355698","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ed-terri-winding-terri-winding-ed-fairy-tales-for-grown-ups-2026-9780712355698-1245923926.jpg?v=1782330490","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/fairy-tales-for-grown-ups","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}