The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - The Complete First Edition

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions. These narrative gems, newly translated and brought together in one beautiful book, are accompanied by sumptuous new illustrations from award-winning artist Andrea Dezso. From "The Frog King" to "The Golden Key," wondrous worlds unfold--heroes and heroines are rewarded, weaker animals triumph over the strong, and simple bumpkins prove themselves not so simple after all. Esteemed fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes offers accessible translations that retain the spare description and engaging storytelling style of the originals.Indeed, this is what makes the tales from the 1812 and 1815 editions unique--they reflect diverse voices, rooted in oral traditions, that are absent from the Grimms' later, more embellished collections of tales. Zipes's introduction gives important historical context, and the book includes the Grimms' prefaces and notes. A delight to read, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm presents these peerless stories to a whole new generation of readers.

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"This collection contains many of the most-loved fairy tales in the history of the form . . . The book is a classic, formed like a mosaic of precious small pieces, each one glinting with its own color and character, glass and crystalline, but somehow hard, unyielding."--Marina Warner, New York Review of Books

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• Authors: Jacob Grimm, Jacob Grimm Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
• Assisted by: Andrea Dezso (Illustration), Andrea Dezsö (Illustration), Andrea Dezsoe (Illustration), Jack Zipes (Editor), Jack Zipes (Translation), Jack Zipes (Editor and translation), Zipes Jack (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780691173221
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17322-1
• No. of pages: 568
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 208 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)