The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
by Bruno Bettelheim
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- ISBN 10
- 0140137270
- ISBN 13
- 9780140137279
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Paperback / softback. New. Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ...magic forests and enchanted towers ...little pigs and big bad wolves ...Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean? This book presents an exploration of the best-known fairy stories.
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Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a Distinguished Professor of Education and Professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.
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- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A9780140137279
- Title
- The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
- Author
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140137270
- ISBN 13
- 9780140137279
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- April 25, 1991
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