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Christine
The first three to four essays in this book are quite good. The last few are so-so. If you have read other work by Zipes, you can skip the chapter about Disney, for you have heard it before.

However, the book is worth reading simply for its discussion about Beauty and the Beast as well as the Rumpstilskien. Zipes does a wonderful and conniving job of tying the Grimms' version of the tale the advent of industrialization.
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