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Selected Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Selected Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Selected Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


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Summary

Including fables and morality tales, as well as almost all the best known 'fairy' tales, this translation offers a representative selection of the Grimms' tales. It also provides information about the origins of the stories, their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms, along with examples of earlier versions and stories.

Selected Tales Summary

Selected Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...' The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs. Regarded from their inception both as uncosy nursery stories and as raw material for the folklorist the tales were in fact compositions, collected from literate tellers and shaped into a distinctive kind of literature. This new translation mirrors the apparent artlessness of the Grimms, and fully represents the range of less well-known fables, morality tales, and comic stories as well as the classic tales. It takes the stories back to their roots in German Romanticism and includes variant stories and tales that were deemed unsuitable for children.In her fascinating introduction, Joyce Crick explores their origins, and their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms.

Selected Tales Reviews

The book that afforded me deepest pleasure is 'Selected Tales' by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (trans Joyce Crick). What a joy to meet Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and Ashypet again in these sparkling new versions. Paul Bailey, The Independent terrific new edition...forcefully translated and brilliantly analysed, by Joyce Crick. The Independent Joyce Crick, a fine scholar of German literature, has set out here to rescue Grimm's Tales both from children and folklorists and to help us see it as a major work of literature... she has done a magnificent job, and both she and OUP are to be congratulated. TLS

Additional information

GOR005269380
9780192804792
0192804790
Selected Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20050901
404
N/A
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