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Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books by Maria Tatar

  • The Classic Fairy Tales: Third Norton Critical Edition

    Maria Tatar

    Third Edition, E Book, 2026

  • The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales

    Maria Tatar

    Hardback, 2002

    Not since Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has there been such an illuminating contribution to the world of children's fairy tales.
  • The Annotated Brothers Grimm

    Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar, A. S. Byatt

    The Bicentennial Edition, Hardback, 2012

    "This is the book I wanted as a child and didn’t have, the book I’d have liked both to give to my children and to keep for myself, the book I shall give my grandchildren." —A. S. Byatt, from the...
  • The Annotated African American Folktales

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., Maria Tatar

    Hardback, 2017

    Collected for the first time, these African American folktales reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.
  • The Annotated Peter Pan

    J. M. Barrie, Maria Tatar

    The Centennial Edition, E Book, 2014

    "Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age."—Mark Twain
  • The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen, Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar, Julie K. Allen

    E Book, 2007

    A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars.
  • The Annotated African American Folktales

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., Maria Tatar

    E Book, 2017

    Collected for the first time, these African American folktales reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.
  • The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen, Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar, Julie K. Allen

    Hardback, 2007

    A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars.