Brothers Grimm: The Complete Fairy Tales (Illustrated)
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales. Together with their well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' there are darker tales which deserve to be better known. This is a collection of their tales.
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales. Together with their well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' there are darker tales which deserve to be better known. This is a collection of their tales.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781853268984 (1853268984)
ASIN: 1853268984
Publish date: January 5th 1998
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Pages no: 848
Edition language: English
I started reading this book on January 2 of this year and I’ve been slowly, slowly working my way through it. It’s 752 pages and contains 211 stories. I think, if I had tried to read this book all at once, I probably would have given up on it. As it is, I’m not sure finishing it is the wisest thi...
This is a book filled with many different stories by The Grimm Brothers. This would be an excellent book for older students who are looking at myths, folktales, and short stories.
I absolutely love the Grimm fairytales. I think that you could do a lot with this in the 5th-6th grade. Like comparing the Grimm fairytales to other versions of the stories.
This collection is a load of interesting little stories. These originals are way more twisted than fairytales of my childhood. In these versions, the repercussions are more bloody and less forgiving.
After soldiering through the preface, the introduction, the essay on the stories’ origins and cultural effects, and the first 19 tales, I skipped ahead to the biographical essay, the Grimms’ original prefaces, and the collected quotes on fairy tales; then I went back and read two more of the more ic...
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